Lights Out in Wonderland

<b>The hilarious and outrageous tale of one man's fight against the decadent excess of the modern world, from the Booker Prize-winning author of <i>Vernon God Little</i>.</b><br><br>Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is looking to end it all with one last journey of excess. <br><br>Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, <i>Lights Out In Wonderland</i> documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel's adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport.<br><br>An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on the march towards mindless banality, DBC Pierre's third novel is an unexpectedly joyful expression of the human spirit.