Dear dickhead - virginie despentes

The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction.

Dear Dickhead, I read your post on Insta.

Youre like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you flap past.

Its shitty and unpleasant.

Waah, waah, waah, Im a pissy little pantywaist, no one loves me so I whimper like a Chihuahua in the hope someone will notice me.

Congratulations: youve got your fifteen minutes of fame! You want proof? Im 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 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.

Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory , has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons 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.

Dear Dickhead 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 The Guardian as Frances rock and roll Zola.