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The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction. 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 that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction--to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage. Virginie Despentes, the celebrated author of King Kong Theory, has written her breakthrough book: a Dangerous Liaisons for our time. We follow Rebecca and Oscar as they develop an unlikely friendship and argue over questions of right and wrong in a city--Paris--where pleasure, excess, and freedom rule the day, or used to. Dear Dickhead is a guns-blazing 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 and roll Zola.""

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Virginie Despentes is a writer and filmmaker. She worked in an independent record store in the early '90s, was a sex worker, and published her first novel, Baise Moi, when she was twenty-three. She adapted the novel for the screen in 2000, codirecting with the porn star Coralie Trinh Thi. Upon release, it became the first film to be banned in France in twenty-eight years. Despentes is the author of more than fifteen other works, including the Vernon Subutex Trilogy, Apocalypse Baby, Bye Bye Blondie, Pretty Things, and the essay collection King Kong Theory. Frank Wynne has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, and many more writers. He won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005 for his translation of Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World. Gina Rogers was asked to narrate her first audiobook in 2014 after an author overheard her imitating her Bronx-raised mother at a dinner party. While Gina swears her background in musical theater and television acting has in no way prepared her to speak in accents and dialects, her ability to breathe life into characters has taken her a long way in her career as an audiobook narrator. Outside of narration she teaches Zumba(R) fitness classes and enjoys spending time with family and volunteering at local animal shelters. A husband and father of two, Patrick Zeller has been acting professionally on stage, screen, or in front of a mic for over twenty-five years. He holds a BFA in acting from Emerson College, where he trained under voice guru Kristin Linklater, and an MFA in classical theater from The-Old-Globe-and-University-of-San-Diego-Shiley-Graduate-Theatre-Program (they don't give you the degree until you can say it all in one breath). Patrick cowrote and stars in a hilarious web series about stay at home dads, Packed, available on Roku. He has the distinct pleasure of playing trouble maker Joey Novak on General Hospital, and has picked up multiple SOVAS for his work as Major DeLancie in T. J. London's Rebels and Redcoats Saga. As long as he's listening to or telling stories, he's happy.

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