Virginie Despentes
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A woman convinces her sister, who has a beautiful voice, to pretend they are the same person so she can become famous. After she suddenly commits suicide, the remaining sister continues to use, and learn about, her dead sister's identity."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris, where his name was legend throughout Paris. By the 2000s, however, with the arrival of the internet and the decline in CD and vinyl sales, his shop is struggling, like so many others. When it closes, Subutex finds himself with nowhere to go and nothing to do. Before long, his savings are gone, and when the mysterious rock star who had been covering his rent suddenly...
Author
Series
Vernon Subutex volume 2
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Vernon Subutex is still on the streets. Hanging around with alcohol-soaked Charles in the Parc de Buttes Chaumont, feverish and hallucinating, he is completely cut off from the wider world and unaware that he is the subject of a frantic search by a crowd of hunters hot on the trail of the last recordings of the famous dead musician, Alex Bleach. But just imagine that one of these hunters finally gets hold of the precious tapes. What might they contain?...
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With humor, rage, and confessional detail, Virginie Despentes-in her own words "more King Kong than Kate Moss"-delivers a highly charged account of women's lives today. She explodes common attitudes about sex and gender and shows how modern beauty myths are ripe for rebelling against. Using her own experiences of rape, prostitution, and working in the porn industry as a jumping-off point, she creates a new space for all those who can't or won't obey...
Author
Series
Vernon Subutex volume 3
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! - The final installation of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes's Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock trilogy"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Alive Mind
Publication Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A documentary from the perspective of pro-sex feminism which asserts that pornography must be wrested from patriarchal control, and that in the hands of women and sexual minorities, it can become a tool of liberation. Director Virginie Despentes takes a wide ranging look at the movement and maps the evolution of pro-sex, with roughly two dozen interviews with members of the post-porn movement.