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  • Fiction
  • 2001
  • First Vintage International edition.

The elementary particles

Michel Houellebecq

Frank Wynne, Michel Houellebecq

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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.

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Title Statement The elementary particles / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
Author Houellebecq, Michel
Additional Contributors Wynne, Frank
Houellebecq, Michel
Publication New York: Vintage International, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,2001.©2000
Edition First Vintage International edition.
Extent of Item 263 pages ;
ISBN 9780375727016 (trade paperback)
Other Number pr00403998
General Notes "Originally published in hardcover in France as Les particules élémentaires by Flammarion, Paris, in 1998. This translation was first published in the United Kingdom under the title Atomised by William Heinemann, an imprint of The Random House Group, Limited, London, and subsequently in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House Inc., New York, in 2000"--Title page verso.
Translation of: Les particules élémentaires.
Awards Prix Novembre, 1998
Summary 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.
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By Topic Brothers--Fiction
Extinction (Biology)--Fiction
French fiction--Fiction--20th century
Molecular biologists--Fiction
Social evolution--Fiction
Particles (Nuclear physics)--Fiction
By Genre Science fiction
Psychological fiction
Novels
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