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My sister slept with the light on until she was 27. She rightfully blames me. I would leap out of closets with my hands made into claws. I would... Continue »

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by Michel Houellebecq

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ISBN10: 0375727019
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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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Michel Houellebecq lives in Ireland.

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: Atom Tom, January 4, 2010 (view all comments by Atom Tom)
Easily one of the best books I've ever read. No one approaches the complex interwoven issues surrounding personal pleasure, relationships, technology, violence, and nihilism in such a way. Provocative and never gratuitous, the sex scenes are some of the best ever put to paper, and all speak to a radically new way of envisioning our individual lives and the pleasure we can provide others, even if it's just one person, and the global effect that could have. Well worth a read. Or two or three.
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Product Details

ISBN:: 9780375727016
Translator:: Wynne, Frank
Author:: Wynne, Frank
Author:: Houellebecq, Michel
Publisher:: Vintage Books USA
Location:: New York
Subject:: Literary
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Science fiction
Subject:: Brothers
Subject:: Translations into english
Subject:: Molecular biologists.
Subject:: Extinction
Subject:: Psychological fiction
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Series:: Vintage International (Paperback)
Series Volume:: 2000-210325
Publication Date:: 20011131
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: General/trade
Language:: English
Pages:: 272
Dimensions:: 8.03x5.19x.65 in. .49 lbs.

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