The Elementary Particles

Author: Houellebecq Michel

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Price : 29.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780375727016
Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Weight (g) : 0.198673
Publication date : 13 November 2001
Dimensions : .55 Inches X 5.16 Inches X 7.97 Inches
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Author : Houellebecq Michel
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Language : English
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An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.

Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

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