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Houellebecq, Michel

Summary: In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are dead, and his lifelong obsession--the ideas and works of the novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans--has led him nowhere. In a late-capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is spiritually barren, but seeking to fill the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOU

Houellebecq, Michel.

Summary: "Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s'engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu motivé par l'enseignement, il s'attend à une vie ennuyeuse mais calme, protégée des grands drames historiques. Cependant les forces en jeu dans le pays ont fissuré le système politique jusqu'à provoquer son effondrement. Cette implosion sans soubresauts, sans vraie révolution, se développe comme un...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 HOU FRENCH

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