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Atomised

ISBN-13: 9780099283362
ISBN-10: 0099283360
Edition: Second Edition
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 384 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780099283362
ISBN-10: 0099283360
Edition: Second Edition
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 384 pages

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Atomised (ISBN-13: 9780099283362 and ISBN-10: 0099283360), written by authors Michel Houellebecq, was published by Vintage in 2001. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Atomised (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.75.

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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 in its dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, in 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.

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