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Winner of the Prix renaudot “A pocalypse Baby is more than a compelling punk, queerish spin on the noir genre. It is a choral performance that tumbles its readers into the heart of violent spectacle, with all its attendant grief, unease, and unclarity.” Praise for King Kong Theory —Maggie NelsoN, author of The Art of Cruelty by Virginie Despentes “Ican’tstoptalkingaboutthisbook.Despentescommitsunflinching genretrouble,stickingherfingerinthewoundsofcrimefiction,bour- geois realism, and queer and feminist social critique in order to tell the story of sexual, ethnic, and class-based violence.” —BarBara BrowNiNg, author of The Correspondence Artist “ Despentes argues compellingly about women’s guilt, men’s power, and the way that both are still abused three “ Virginie Despentes’s social criticism is blistering, but her prose is decades after the supposed triumph of feminism.” laid-back. Apocalypse Baby is an addictive feminist thriller that reads like shameless gossip from your smartest friend.” —Katy Guest, Independent —JohaNNa FateMaN, writer and musician “A gloriously aggressive and fearless writer.” rance’s most notorious feminist writer gives us Apocalypse Baby, Fa fast-paced mystery following two mismatched private inves- —Lisa Hilton, Times Literary Supplement tigators—the Hyena, a ruthless and charismatic vigilante, and Lucie, an apathetic and resentful slacker—as they cruise the streets “ A manifesto . . . part memoir, part political pamphlet, of Paris and Barcelona in search of a missing girl. The duo question a it is a furious condemnation of the ‘servility’ of enforced cast of unsavory characters, exposing lust, violence, greed, and the femininity and was a bestseller in France—the title refers corruption of contemporary youth culture. As their desperate search to her contention that she is ‘more King Kong than Kate unfolds, we careen toward a conclusion no one could have ever anticipated. Moss.’” —Elizabeth Day, Observer Cult author and filmmaker VirgiNie DespeNtes has “K ing Kong Theory is a free-ranging feminist manifesto . . . written many award-winning books, including King Kong her writing has an undeniable edge and urgency.” Theory and Vernon Subutex. —Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday Cover illustration by Molly Crabapple ISBN 978-155861-891-6 $17.95 US TRANSLATED BY SIÂN REYNOLDS Published in 2015 by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5406 New York, NY 10016 feministpress.org First Feminist Press edition 2015 Text copyright © 2010 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle Translation copyright © 2013 by Siân Reynolds Originally published in France by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in 2010. First English-language edition published in Britain by Serpent’s Tail in 2013. All rights reserved. This book is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This book was made possible thanks to a grant from New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. No part of this book may be reproduced, used, or stored in any information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechani- cal, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. First printing April 2015 Cover design by Molly Crabapple Text design by Drew Stevens Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Despentes, Virginie, 1969- [Apocalypse bébé. English] Apocalypse baby / by Virginie Despentes ; [translated by Sian Reynolds] — First feminist press edition. pages cm ISBN 978-1-55861-891-6 (pbk.) — ISBN 978-1-55861-884-8 (ebook) 1. Women detectives—Fiction. 2. Missing persons—Fiction. 3. Mystery fiction. I. Reynolds, Sian, translator. II. Title. PQ2664.E7895A8813 2015 843'.914—dc23 2014039946 Contents Epigraph Dedication PARIS François Claire Yacine BARCELONA Vanessa The Hyena Elisabeth Valentine PARIS About the Author About Feminist Press Also available from Feminist Press — 5 — — 6 — . . . como dos vampiros dormiremos sobre tu tumba, calentaremos tus huesos, como dos vampiros vendremos a saciar tu sed de sexo, de sangre y de testosterona. Testo Yonqui, Paul B. Preciado To B.P.
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