{"product_id":"dear-dickhead-9780374611613","title":"Dear Dickhead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary \u003ci\u003eDangerous Liaisons\u003c\/i\u003e about sex, feminism, and addiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Dickhead, \u003cbr\u003eI 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOscar 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 that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction--to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVirginie Despentes, the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eKing Kong Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, has written her breakthrough book: a \u003ci\u003eDangerous Liaisons\u003c\/i\u003e for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a city--Paris--where pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. \u003ci\u003eDear Dickhead\u003c\/i\u003e is a guns-blazing 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e as France's \"rock and roll Zola.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374611613\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Virginie Despentes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44431979380917,"sku":"9780374611613","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_db18a59c-f00d-4330-afd9-9d0c077d39ec.jpg?v=1721139187","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dear-dickhead-9780374611613","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}