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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Novel
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780374608422
- Book Title
- Annihilation : a Novel
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Literary
- Item Weight
- 26.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374608423
ISBN-13
9780374608422
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14064998529
Product Key Features
Book Title
Annihilation : a Novel
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
26.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-024692
Reviews
" Houellebecq doesn't just forecast current events; he satirizes them, dryly, with perfect pitch . His mimicry of the inflated language of marketing, bureaucratic euphemism, and hypertechnical mumbo jumbo finds the exact midpoint between amusing and appalling." --Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic "[ Annihilation ] is a book about discovering the ties that bind and about letting yourself be bound by them. Filled with acceptance if not serenity, it has the happiest ending you can have in a book by a writer who doesn't believe in happiness." --John Powers, NPR "More than a meditation on existential melancholy. [ Annihilation ] also holds up a mirror to contemporary France, this time in a presidential-election year and in unexpected ways." -- The Economist "On a deeper level, Houellebecq seems to be confronting the Raison family with death mostly so that he can show us their love for one another--and their dependence on religious belief for, if not happiness, at least consolation . . . Truly impressive in its scope and humanity yet also strangely tranquil, almost sedated, as if it was written in the lotus position." --Trevor Merrill, Compact "Michel Houellebecq has crafted a thrilling and terrifying look into social instability and the lives it puts at risk." --Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books "Both a writer whose instincts are old-fashioned . . . and radically of the moment, willing to expose the sordid, despairing interiority of much of first-world private life . . . This is what Houellebecq, at his best, does: hook the reader with a portrait of a man's limitations only to put him through a series of narrative paces that march him to an end -- end of life, end of prospects, end of story -- and elicit the compassion necessary to see him for more than his glaring shortcomings." --Wyatt Mason, The New York Times "I can't think of a contemporary novelist anywhere whose work reflects the mood of the times so acutely [Houellebecq] seems to anticipate events; or any other writer who is so willing to show us the world as he sees it, not as we'd like it to be." --Melanie McDonagh, The Evening Standard "A compassionate, deeply affecting novel about love and death and the way we treat the dying . . . A novel of massive ambition, worthy of Balzac, deeply embedded in the reality of France, telling truths that come, in the end, straight from Pascal." --David Sexton, The Spectator " Annihilation may present itself as a political thriller, but at its heart is a far more intimate catastrophe . . . In the end, Annihilation leans neither towards hope nor despair, but towards a transcendent serenity--an eerie peace that arises, as everything arises in this novel, in the space to which warring forces give shape." --Sam Byers, The Guardian "I like to think Houellebecq is an optimist deep down, and this new novel supports my gut feeling . . . but there's still plenty of his trademark black-humored venom . . . The final part of the book is a deeply poignant, theistically suggestive masterpiece." --Oskar Osprey, Artforum "[Houellebecq] has become an undisputed literary titan . . . [In Annihilation ] we're given Houellebecq at his most tender-hearted and vulnerable . . . Politics, the conspiracy at the heart of the book, all the rest of it--everything fades away. And all that's left, all that matters, is embracing the one you love." --Camilla Grudova, The Telegraph, "[ Annihilation ] is a book about discovering the ties that bind and about letting yourself be bound by them. Filled with acceptance if not serenity, it has the happiest ending you can have in a book by a writer who doesn't believe in happiness." --John Powers, NPR "More than a meditation on existential melancholy. [ Annihilation ] also holds up a mirror to contemporary France, this time in a presidential-election year and in unexpected ways." -- The Economist "On a deeper level, Houellebecq seems to be confronting the Raison family with death mostly so that he can show us their love for one another--and their dependence on religious belief for, if not happiness, at least consolation . . . Truly impressive in its scope and humanity yet also strangely tranquil, almost sedated, as if it was written in the lotus position." --Trevor Merrill, Compact "Michel Houellebecq has crafted a thrilling and terrifying look into social instability and the lives it puts at risk." --Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books "Both a writer whose instincts are old-fashioned . . . and radically of the moment, willing to expose the sordid, despairing interiority of much of first-world private life . . . This is what Houellebecq, at his best, does: hook the reader with a portrait of a man's limitations only to put him through a series of narrative paces that march him to an end -- end of life, end of prospects, end of story -- and elicit the compassion necessary to see him for more than his glaring shortcomings." --Wyatt Mason, The New York Times "I can't think of a contemporary novelist anywhere whose work reflects the mood of the times so acutely [Houellebecq] seems to anticipate events; or any other writer who is so willing to show us the world as he sees it, not as we'd like it to be." --Melanie McDonagh, The Evening Standard "A compassionate, deeply affecting novel about love and death and the way we treat the dying . . . A novel of massive ambition, worthy of Balzac, deeply embedded in the reality of France, telling truths that come, in the end, straight from Pascal." --David Sexton, The Spectator " Annihilation may present itself as a political thriller, but at its heart is a far more intimate catastrophe . . . In the end, Annihilation leans neither towards hope nor despair, but towards a transcendent serenity--an eerie peace that arises, as everything arises in this novel, in the space to which warring forces give shape." --Sam Byers, The Guardian "I like to think Houellebecq is an optimist deep down, and this new novel supports my gut feeling . . . but there's still plenty of his trademark black-humored venom . . . The final part of the book is a deeply poignant, theistically suggestive masterpiece." --Oskar Osprey, Artforum "[Houellebecq] has become an undisputed literary titan . . . [In Annihilation ] we're given Houellebecq at his most tender-hearted and vulnerable . . . Politics, the conspiracy at the heart of the book, all the rest of it--everything fades away. And all that's left, all that matters, is embracing the one you love." --Camilla Grudova, The Telegraph, Praise for Serotonin"One cannot be said to be keeping abreast of contemporary literature without reading his work." - Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New York Times Book Review"Michel Houellebecq might be the most brilliant and maddening French writer alive . . . Always worth reading because he confronts his readers with fundamental questions." - Paul W. Gleason, The National Book Review, "I can't think of a contemporary novelist anywhere whose work reflects the mood of the times so acutely [Houellebecq] seems to anticipate events; or any other writer who is so willing to show us the world as he sees it, not as we'd like it to be." --Melanie McDonagh, The Evening Standard "A compassionate, deeply affecting novel about love and death and the way we treat the dying . . . A novel of massive ambition, worthy of Balzac, deeply embedded in the reality of France, telling truths that come, in the end, straight from Pascal." --David Sexton, The Spectator " Annihilation may present itself as a political thriller, but at its heart is a far more intimate catastrophe . . . In the end, Annihilation leans neither towards hope nor despair, but towards a transcendent serenity--an eerie peace that arises, as everything arises in this novel, in the space to which warring forces give shape." --Sam Byers, The Guardian "I like to think Houellebecq is an optimist deep down, and this new novel supports my gut feeling . . . but there's still plenty of his trademark black-humored venom . . . The final part of the book is a deeply poignant, theistically suggestive masterpiece." --Oskar Osprey, Artforum "[Houellebecq] has become an undisputed literary titan . . . [In Annihilation ] we're given Houellebecq at his most tender-hearted and vulnerable . . . Politics, the conspiracy at the heart of the book, all the rest of it--everything fades away. And all that's left, all that matters, is embracing the one you love." --Camilla Grudova, The Telegraph
Synopsis
Michel Houellebecq's international bestseller-- a thrilling, ambitious, and unexpectedly tender chronicle of modern existence. It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay. As the country plunges into a contentious presidential race, the government falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks in which videos of brutal decapitations and skillfully crafted deepfakes proliferate on the web. Paul Raison's own troubles are bound up with those of the country. He is an adviser to the finance minister; his wife, Prudence, is a Treasury official; and his father, Édouard, now retired, spent his career in the security services. Paul, badly overworked, is facing the threat of separation from his wife. When his father suddenly suffers a stroke, Paul must depart Paris for his provincial hometown, where he and his siblings now have the opportunity to repair their strained relationships with Édouard as they determine to free him from the decrepit public nursing home where he is wasting away. Michel Houellebecq's Annihilation reveals a new dimension of his oeuvre, adding compassion and tenderness to the irony and cutting insight that brought him international fame. Here, we see France's most celebrated novelist taking stock of his country on the eve of great change--asking how, and whether, a society and its people can change course.
LC Classification Number
PQ2668.O77A8313 2024
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- h***e (519)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBook in new condition, as described. Well packaged with minor scuff on one corner. Five day delay between shipping label generation and USPS drop-off which was frustrating. Seller claimed illness which I accept at face value. Overall good value.
- *****- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchase--
- 6***a (153)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe item was exactly as described, packaged securely and well priced. It was shipped and arrived in less than a week- thank you!NEW~Microline Filter Set Of Two #S7025 and #7028 Double SEALED (#356722368045)