Big Snake Little Snake
DBC Pierre
In his first foray into non-fiction, Booker Prize-winning author DBC Pierre has assembled a spectacular selection of short stories and anecdotes meditating the draw of risk, fortune, and fate - all of which begin when he arrives home in Trinidad to a snake curled up on his doorstep...
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.
HARDBACK PUBLISHED ON: 14/04/2022
£14.99
ISBN: 2001797007713
Praise for Big Snake Little Snake
‘A thrilling intellectual inquiry into the seductive nature of risk’ Financial Times
'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
‘Dangerous, smart, ridiculous and very funny’ The New York Times
About the author
One of the nation's most uncompromising literary voices, DBC Pierre is author of the novels VERNON GOD LITTLE, LUDMILA'S BROKEN ENGLISH and LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND, plus the picture book for distracted adults PETIT MAL and the Hammer novella BREAKFAST WITH THE BORGIAS. The novel VERNON GOD LITTLE sold in 43 territories and won the Man Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Award and the James Joyce Award from University College Dublin. His ground-breaking new novel MEANWHILE IN DOPAMINE CITY was published by Faber & Faber in August2020 and is short-listed for The Goldsmiths Prize.