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9780375727016
Elementary Particles
by Houellebecq, Michel
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- ISBN-13: 9780375727016
- ISBN: 0375727019
- Publication Date: 2001
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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"THE ELEMENTARY PARTICLES is grotesque and fantastical, full of loony physics, half-baked history and sociobiology, bad verse and sputtering misanthropy. It is also very funny, and sharply observed; but what makes it great satire, I think, is its childlike capacity for disappointment. Houellebecq may despair of love in a free market, but he takes love more seriously, as an artistic problem and a fact about the world, than most polite novelists would dare to do; when he brings his sweeping indignation to bear on one memory, one moment when things seemed about to turn out all right for his characters, and didn't, his compassion can blow you away."Houellebecq, Michel is the author of 'Elementary Particles', published 2001 under ISBN 9780375727016 and ISBN 0375727019.
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