{"product_id":"dear-dickhead-9781250397669b","title":"Dear Dickhead","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/span\u003ebest book of 2024 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Financial Times \u003c\/span\u003eBest Translated Book of 2024 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eShortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award in Prose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLibrary Science\u003c\/span\u003e September book club pick \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eVulture \u003c\/span\u003emost anticipated book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of The\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e’ 24 works of fiction to read of fall 2024 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eGuardian \u003c\/span\u003ebest translated fiction pick \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e Town \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/span\u003e must-read fall book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"\u003eDear Dickhead,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginie Despentes, the celebrated author of\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e King Kong Theory\u003c\/span\u003e, has written her breakthrough book: a \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eDangerous Liaisons\u003c\/span\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. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eDear Dickhead\u003c\/span\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\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e as France’s “rock and roll Zola.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e“It’s a thrill to hear the characters develop on the page . . . One of the better portrayals of addiction I’ve encountered in literature, up there with books by Jean Rhys and Leslie Jamison.” —Joumana Khatib, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Engrossing . . . Full of emotional suspense.” —Pamela Druckerman, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42871118921808,"sku":"9781250397669B","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250397669-l.jpg?v=1785883276","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/dear-dickhead-9781250397669b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}