false 15335071 902009 58314 0375727019 9780375727016 212 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170507057m/58314.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170507057s/58314.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58314.The_Elementary_Particles 3.76 1530 The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.

Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
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