Uniform Title
Particules élémentaires. English
Title
The elementary particles / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
Edition
1st Vintage International ed. November 2001.
Published
New York : Vintage International, 2001.
Physical Description
263, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Local Notes
Part of the Winterhouse Chemistry Collection, gift of Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel, 2014.
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.
Added to Catalog
August 15, 2019