ISBN: 9780434007936 - Incorrect page count

[Matthew]

This edition has 379 pages, as given in WorldCat: https://search.worldcat.org/title/427...

The full text of the dust jacket is also missing. It should be:

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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 élémentaires) tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is in its dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines.

The most controversial and exciting novel to come out of France for decades. Atomised is a brilliant, bilious, blackly funny dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral, it is an extraordinary and unique novel. It has hit bestseller lists in France, the Netherlands and Germany and is being translated into over twenty languages.

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Thanks, Matthew

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

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