Vernon God Little - DBP Pierre

A worthy winner of the Booker Prize?
I think so - 'though it didn't give me the greatest pleasure of any of the shortlisted books (that honour goes to Astonishing Splashes of Colour). I found the language a little difficult to start with - the Texan idiom took a bit of getting used to - but by 50 pages into the book I was not noticing it any more. If someone had interrupted me I probably would have started talking like a Texan (an unlikely scenario).
What an excellent extrapolation and satire of the flawed 'trial by media' culture in the United States. It is particularly scary in Texas, where the dealth penalty is still applied. Americans who feel that their human rights record is better than the Iraqis should read this book.......