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Dear Dickhead: A Novel
Dear Dickhead: A Novel
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“A bitingly humorous conversation about addiction, lockdown, cancellation, and, ultimately, friendship.”
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture
Dear Dickhead,
I read your post on Insta. You’re like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It’s shitty and unpleasant. Waah, waah, waah, I’m a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me. Congratulations: you’ve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? I’m writing to you.
Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment when Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a battle royale between the sexes, and a romp through Paris during the aftershocks of a cultural earthquake.
Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her most daring book yet: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. Dear Dickhead is a flame-throwing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by The Guardian as France’s “rock’n’roll Zola.”
I read your post on Insta. You’re like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past. It’s shitty and unpleasant. Waah, waah, waah, I’m a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me. Congratulations: you’ve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? I’m writing to you.
Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment when Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a battle royale between the sexes, and a romp through Paris during the aftershocks of a cultural earthquake.
Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her most daring book yet: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. Dear Dickhead is a flame-throwing novel about a culture that makes men and women sick, and about how the search for feeling leaves us addicted to what makes us feel. The result is a provocative and unmissable book from the author hailed by The Guardian as France’s “rock’n’roll Zola.”
Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker. She worked in an independent record store in the early 1990s, was a sex worker, and published her first novel, Baise-Moi, when she was twenty-three. Despentes is the author of more than fifteen other works, including King Kong Theory and the acclaimed Vernon Subutex trilogy.
Frank Wynne is a literary translator from the French and Spanish. He has won numerous prizes, including twice winning the International Dublin Literary Award, with Houellebecq for The Elementary Particles in 2002, and with Alice Zeniter for The Art of Losing in 2022.
Frank Wynne is a literary translator from the French and Spanish. He has won numerous prizes, including twice winning the International Dublin Literary Award, with Houellebecq for The Elementary Particles in 2002, and with Alice Zeniter for The Art of Losing in 2022.
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