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Atomisedby Michel HouellebecqISBN 0099283360 (0-09-928336-0)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atomised'Book summary:Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. 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 atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised (Les Particules elementaires) tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral. [via]
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The Elementary Particlesby Michel HouellebecqISBN 0375727019 (0-375-72701-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Elementary Particles'Book summary:Bruno and Michel are half-brothers, born to a hippie mother who believed in following her bliss. As boys they live in ignorance of each other--at one point attending the same school without knowing of their blood connection. As grown men they're not truly close, but they occasionally phone each other late at night. Bruno's a hopeless sexual obsessive, often drunk or on his way there, and Michel's a molecular biologist, distant and inaccessible.
Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles follows these brothers through the latter half of the 20th century. Bruno and Michel are buffeted by history, vessels of disappointment and desire rocked by the ocean of time. Shuttled away to a boarding school where he's sexually abused by other boys, Bruno grows up full of twisted sexual longings and a contempt for aging women so palpable that at times it's stomach-churning. At a commune in the country, Bruno takes stock:
The women were intolerable at breakfast, but by cocktail hour the mystical tarts were hopelessly vying with younger women once again. Death is the great leveler. On Wednesday afternoon he met Catherine, a fifty-year-old who had been a feminist of the old school. She was tanned, with dark curly hair; she must have been very attractive when she was twenty. Her breasts were still in good shape, he thought when he saw her by the pool, but she had a fat ass.
Michel doesn't hate women; he doesn't even notice them. Instead of leering at bodies by the pool, he stares at particles in microscopes. He wins prizes for his experiments, but never experiences the rush of life. For both men, the damage has been done by history, by mother, before the story begins. What interests Houellebecq are the permutations and recapitulations of damage--the way the particles of the self can never be completely reconstituted. --Emily White [via]More editions of The Elementary Particles:
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H. P. Lovecraft : Against the World, Against Lifeby Michel Houellebecq , Stephen KingISBN 0297851381 (0-297-85138-1)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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H.P. Lovecraft-Contre Le Monde Contre LA Vieby Michel HouellebecqISBN 158348194X (1-58348-194-X)
Softcover, Iuniverse Inc
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Lanzaroteby Michel Houellebecq , Frank WynneISBN 0434009180 (0-434-00918-0)
Hardcover, William Heinemann
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Platformby Michel Houellebecq , Frank WynneISBN 1400030269 (1-4000-3026-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Platform'Book summary:Michel Renault is a human void. Following the death of the father he barely knew, he endures his civil ser-
vice job while eking out an existence of prepackaged pleasure, hollow friendships, TV dinners, and pornography. On a group holiday in Thailand, however, he meets the shyly compelling Valérie, who soon pursues an agenda that Michel himself could never have thought possible: his own humanization.
Back in Paris, they plunge into an affair that strays into S&M, public sex, and partner swapping, even as they devise a scheme to save Valéries ailing travel company by capitalizing on the only trade Michel has seen flourish in the Third World. Before long, he quits his job, and their business model for sex tourism is gradually implemented. But when they return to Thailand, where Michels philosophy will be put into practice, he discovers that sex is neither the most consuming nor dangerous of passions . . .
From a suburbanized West crippled by hate crime to an East subsumed by materialism, Michel Houellebecq exploreswith characteristic provocativeness, but also with surprising tendernessthe emotions that seem most resilient to any influence: love and hate. Platform is, as Anita Brookner has written, a brilliant novel, casting a prescient eye on the abuses and inequalities that lead to wider trouble. [via]
Platform Headerby Michel HouellebecqISBN 0099462591 (0-09-946259-1)
Softcover, Random House
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The Possibility of an Islandby Michel Houellebecq , Gavin BowdISBN 0307275213 (0-307-27521-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Possibility of an Island 36-copy Dumpbinby Michel HouellebecqISBN 0753815435 (0-7538-1543-5)
Softcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor
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Thomas Ruff Nudesby Thomas Ruff, Michel HouellebecqISBN 0810945819 (0-8109-4581-9)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Whateverby Michel Houellebecq , Paul HammondISBN 1852425849 (1-85242-584-9)
Softcover, Serpents Tail
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