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.Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Published: 11/13/2001
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780375727016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 0.65″ H x 8.03″ L x 5.19″ W
Award: 2002 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner – Fiction
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