Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq (English) Paperback Book

Description: Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq, Shaun Whiteside LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brains release of serotonin.When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas- Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves Rachel KushnerMichel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times. . . Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable Evening Standard FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Michel Houellebecq (Author)Michel Houellebecq is a poet, essayist and novelist. He is the author of several novels including The Map and the Territory (winner of the Prix Goncourt), Atomised, Platform, Whatever and Submission. He was awarded the Legion dHonneur in 2019.Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Shaun Whiteside is an award-winning translator from French, German, Italian and Dutch. His most recent translations from German include Aftermath by Harald J hner, To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann, Swansong 1945 by Walter Kempowski, Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein and The Broken House by Horst Kr ger. Review Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable… Serotonin burns with anger… [Michel Houellebecq is] the most interesting novelist of our times * Evening Standard *Houellebecq has once again managed to put his finger on modern French (and Western) societys wounds, and it hurts * Economist *Any new book by Houellebecq is guaranteed to make waves, and Serotonin is no exception ... A bleak, uncompromising novel. But it also feels like an important one, asking some necessary questions in characteristically mordant fashion * Mail on Sunday *A cautionary tale about dissipated manhood… Houellebecq may be, in certain respects, a man for our times * Literary Review *While Houellebecq is provocative and at times deliberately controversial, his success is not based solely on his ability to shock. He also has a beautiful fluid writing style…and an uncanny ability to evoke the spleen that for him is at the core of existence * Irish Times *The authors prescience has certainly proved as eerie as his reported politics are contentious, yet Serotonins brilliance far exceeds its accuracy as a cultural barometer… Houellebecq is a disarmingly rich and nuanced writer; Serotonin is mordant, haunting but never (quite) embittered -- Lisa Hilton * TLS *Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves -- Rachel KushnerHouellebecq has a sociological curiosity few other novelists possess... The agony and rage of the demoted, the discarded, the "deplorable" (a segment of them, if not the whole basket), laid bare. What other novelist would have the willingness to go there, let alone the wherewithal * Guardian *To some, he is the only serious writer prepared to look at disagreeable aspects of the modern world – sex tourism, radical Islam, airports, free markets, pornography ... [Houellebecqs] novels have a journalistic knack of chiming with events * Sunday Times *Houellebecqs disdain for the emptiness of modern western life often leaves him spookily ahead of the game ... The satirist carves up the branded ghastliness of restaurants, hotels, supermarkets and the like with a steady butchers hand * Financial Times *Houellebecq is a supreme chronicler of the psyche of modern European man * Spiked *Houellebecqs vision in his new novel, Serotonin, is blacker and sharper than ever…in Shaun Whitesides English translation, Houellebecq has never sounded more fluent * i * Promotional LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 Review Text Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable... Serotonin burns with anger... [Michel Houellebecq is] the most interesting novelist of our times Review Quote Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable... Serotonin burns with anger... [Michel Houellebecq is] the most interesting novelist of our times Promotional "Headline" LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 Details ISBN1529111714 Author Shaun Whiteside Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1529111714 ISBN-13 9781529111712 Format Paperback Pages 320 Translator Shaun Whiteside Publisher Vintage Publishing Publication Date 2020-09-17 UK Release Date 2020-09-17 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-09-17 NZ Release Date 2020-09-17 Translated from French Imprint Vintage DEWEY 843.92 Audience General Alternative 9781473570580 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:129834846;

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