false 263985 20 A worldwide phenomenon and the most famous French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus—a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Having made a fortune producing comedies that skewer mankind’s consumerism, religious fundamentalism, sexual profligacy, and other affronts, Daniel is forty before he falls prey to the human condition himself: his beloved’s body sags with age, their marriage dissolves, and true happiness seems a luxury reserved for their dog, Fox. After the colossal failure of his second great love affair, he joins a cult of health fanatics determined to produce a misery-free eternal life—manifested here in the voices of Daniel’s subsequent clones, who enjoy the umpteenth Fox’s companionship but shun the bands of fugitive “humans” on the horizon. Their commentary on Daniel’s fate, and on the race as a whole, illuminates the basic tenets of our existence—laughter, tears, love, remorse—and their nostalgia for such emotions, all of which have long since disappeared. Laugh-out-loud funny, philosophically compelling, and flatly heartbreaking, The Possibility of an Island is at once an indictment, an elegy, and a celebration of everything we have and are at risk of losing. 1169822 2005 The Possibility of an Island (Vintage International) total:756|5:179|4:249|3:215|2:84|1:29| 756 2733 1147 125 2 13 false false Sat Nov 22 13:52:29 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 14:44:20 -0800 2008
1. This book is partly the product of a guy who read too much Celine and wants to talk about girls' asses. There's a nihilistic streak in which the narrator asserts that nothing ma...more...]]> 5 7 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 13:31:34 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 13:32:20 -0700 2007
So before anything else, let's just get this out of the way: that if you aren't horrendously and profoundly offended at least once by the work of controversial French author Michel Houellebe...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 12:27:27 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 20:06:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 14:35:45 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 11 07:19:46 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Mar 30 10:55:10 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 30 11:06:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 14 00:20:25 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 02 08:08:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jul 08 00:07:22 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 07 13:40:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Aug 14 03:55:31 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 22:03:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 20:53:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 21:52:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 09:51:48 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 09:52:30 -0700 2009
Il est impossible d’en dévoiler un. Le quatrième roman de Michel Houellebecq, par son ampleur, ses ambitions, sa façon bien à lui de déjouer tout pronostic, échappe à cette pratique paresseuse de la critique moderne. Alors qu’en dire ?

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I loved the modern day stuff but found the future clone dreary. We don't always need a sexless ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Sep 16 11:03:41 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 10:28:38 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 11:03:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 16:17:45 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 13:21:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 21:24:11 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 11:32:44 -0800 2009 The Possibility of an Island is, I think, his best work to-date: powerfully written, bleak, brutal, funny, revolting, tender and, in the end, ineffably...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Dec 15 03:50:28 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 18 00:53:26 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 15 03:50:28 -0800 2008
ترجمة محمد المزيودي]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jul 20 13:05:41 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 07 14:57:23 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 20:01:47 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 09:13:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 06:49:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 07:02:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 19:15:06 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 19:21:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 10 13:59:04 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 25 17:58:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=58373