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Whatever by Michel Houellebecq (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSerpent's Tail The Limited

ISBN-101852425849

ISBN-139781852425845

eBay Product ID (ePID)173403

Product Key Features

Original LanguageFrench

Book TitleWhatever

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral

Publication Year1998

GenreFiction

AuthorMichel Houellebecq

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight4.1 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-086409

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThe balance between philosophy and narrative detail is perfectly judged; the book slips down easily like a bad oyster. As is the nature of such things, it is grimly comic

Dewey Decimal843.9/14

SynopsisJust thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system.....A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life., Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until, that is, he's packed off with a colleague - the unimaginably ugly, sexually-frustrated virgin Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system... A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life., Cult novel about French Generation X. Book sold 40000 copies in France and won may prizes for the author who is a poet and father figure of new school of writing and literary magazine Perpendiculare.

LC Classification NumberPQ2676.E67 V513