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“A bitingly humorous conversation about addiction, lockdown, cancellation, and, ultimately, friendship.”
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture
Dear Dickhead,
I 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.
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 when Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a battle royale between the sexes, and a romp through Paris during the aftershocks of a cultural earthquake.
Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her most daring book yet: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. Dear Dickhead is a flame-throwing 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 France’s “rock’n’roll Zola.”