Big Snake Little Snake
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Author_DBC Pierre
booker prize winner
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gambling
Memoir
risk
roadtrip
Trinidad
Product details
- ISBN 9781788169776
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 136 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a short film with a parrot in Trinidad, which not only examines the nature of gambling, the love affair between gambler and game and the mindset of obsessive practitioners, but aims to shed light on the invisible odds and outrageous chances of everyday life on Earth.
Snakes symbolise a road in a Trinidadian numbers game based on dreams and superstition. The inquiry was prompted by a little snake on Pierre's doorstep.
'If writers were athletes, DBC Pierre would be hanging out with the skydivers, the stunt-snowboarders and the white-water rafters' Independent
'One of the most original and seriously funny narrative voices' Observer
DBC Pierre is one of the world's most uncompromising literary voices and the author of the novels Vernon God Little, Ludmila's Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland and Meanwhile In Dopamine City. Vernon God Little sold in forty-three territories and won the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Award and the James Joyce Award. His book on creative writing, Release The Bats, is a classic of its kind.
