Roger Fishbite Paperback / softback
by Emily Prager
Paperback / softback
Description
Emily Prager's new novel is the revenge of Lolita. It retells Nabokov's controversial masterpiece in the half-innocent, half sly voice of the nymphet herself. Or rather a late 1990's version of her sassy, worryingly prococious, sexy, pain-in-the-ass Lucky Linderhof, or just a kid who's had to learn to talk and move fast?
When the story begins Lucky is at the juvenile detention facility, waiting trial for murder. . . Roger Fishbite is what she calls her Humbert Humbert, the writ er to whom her dippy, beautiful, dysfunctional mother rents out the apartment downstairs.
He has a `fisheye' look he gives her when her mo ther's out of sight.
Like Nabakov's Lolita this is a perverse and disturbing sexual comedy, retold with a provocative late 90's spin.
An unputdownable story, and a razor-sharp indictment of a society that asks four year olds to wiggle and pout as beauty queens but turns a blind eye when the Roger Fishbites get the wrong idea.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:28/10/1999
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- ISBN:9780099286615
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:28/10/1999
- Category:
- ISBN:9780099286615