The Elementary Particles
Author(s): Houellebecq Michel
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.
General Information
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- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : 0.198673
- : 13 November 2001
- : .55 Inches X 5.16 Inches X 7.97 Inches
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Houellebecq Michel
- : English
- : 272