| The Elementary Particles Contributor(s): Houellebecq, Michel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375727019 ISBN-13: 9780375727016 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00040568 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.19" W x 8.03" (0.49 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |