Lights Out in Wonderland - Softcover

Pierre, DBC

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571228895 ISBN 13: 9780571228898

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2010

Synopsis

Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided.

Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, Lights Out In Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel's adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes.

Lights Out In Wonderland carries you through its many corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel's voice, which is at once skeptical, idealistic, broken and optimistic. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre's third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as a joyful expression of the human spirit.

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Lights Out in Wonderland

Review:

If any novelist can collate the killing irony of what is happening around us it is DBC Pierre. "

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0571228895
• ISBN 13: 9780571228898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336