{"product_id":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Virginie Despentes","offers":[{"title":"Farrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux |  Hardback | With dust jacket |  2024-09-10","offer_id":45652361216255,"sku":"9780374611613","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b8f9ae7e-194e-4620-a3f6-a50352a2e063.jpg?v=1717602326","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780374611613","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}