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The Elementary Particles

The Elementary Particles

Houellebecq, Michel

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0375727019
ISBN13: 9780375727016
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Nov 13 2001
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.19 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
Awards: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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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