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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomise ...Show more
H.P. Lovecraft - Against the World by Michel Houellebecq (with an introduction by Stephen King)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world." In this prescient work-now with an introduction by Stephen King-Michel Houellebe ...Show more
H.P. Lovecraft : Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
$30.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.' In this prescient work, now with an introduction by Stephen King, Michel Houelle ...Show more
H. P. Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France i ...Show more
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human con ...Show more
Platform by Michel Houellebecq
$45.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
When he comes into some money, Michel takes a leave of absence from his Civil Service job and embarks on a package tour to Thailand, where he meets Valerie. This leads to an attempt to set up a package-holiday company offering consenting adults sexual tourism in the third world.
Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq & Bernard-Henri Levy
$36.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we're both utterly despicable individuals' - (Houellebecq to BHL). In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French intellectuals began a ferocious exchange of letters. "Public Enemies" is the result. In their inimitabl ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$32.99 NZD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' - Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York Times Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional ...Show more
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
$24.00 NZD
$26.00 (7% off)
Category: Fiction
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZETHE MOST IMPORTANT FRENCH BOOK OF THE YEAR___________________'One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading Houellebecq's work.' Karl Ove Knausgaard, New York TimesDissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labroust ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a near-future France, Francois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist and pessimist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a ...Show more
Submission by Michel Houellebecq
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In a near-future France, Fran ois, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession - the ideas and works of the nineteenth-century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans - has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalis ...Show more
The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq Michel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
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 drug ...Show more