279 pages
English language
Published 2004 by Faber and Faber.
3 stars
(1 review)
Teenager Vernon Gregory Little's life has been changed by the Columbine-style slaughter of a group of students at his high school. Soon his home town is blanketed under a media siege, and Vernon finds himself blamed for the killing. Vernon finds himself drawn into a series of increasingly bizarre circumstances and decides to take off for Mexico and a date, with the delectable Taylor Figueros.
Subjects
- High school students -- Fiction.
- School violence -- Fiction.
- Teenage boys -- Fiction.
- Massacres -- Fiction.
- Texas -- Fiction.