My Lists
Featured Lists
The elementary particles
By Houellebecq, Michel & Wynne, Frank
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37540-770-3
- Publisher
- New York : Knopf : 2000.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2000
Houellebecq's second work of fiction (after Whatever) arrives with great fanfare, proclaimed as a great novel by critics abroad; the author even rated a feature in the New York Times Magazine. Indeed, the book is grand in its ambitions. At its heart are two half-brothers, Bruno Cl ment, an oversexed, sexist slob of a failed writer, and Michel Djerzinski, a brilliant but affectless scientist. Their mother, who has roots in Algeria, had the two ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
