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ISBN-10: 0375727019
ISBN-13: 9780375727016
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 11/13/2001
Dimensions: 8.03" L, 5.19" W, 0.65" H

The Elementary Particles

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Overview

An international literary phenomenon, 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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"An original work of art-ironic, intelligent and as airtight and elegant as a geometry proof."
The New York Times Magazine

"[A] brilliant novel of ideas... [A] riveting novel by a deft, observant writer."
The Wall Street Journal

"Fearless, vivid and astringently honest...surprisingly funny... [C]an permanently change how we view things that happened in our own lives. Not many novels can do that."
Los Angeles Times

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ISBN-10: 0375727019
ISBN-13: 9780375727016
Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: 11/13/2001
Dimensions: 8.03" L, 5.19" W, 0.65" H
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