Whatever - Paperback - 9781846687846

"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."--Booklist"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."--The Washington PostJust 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 painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.Michel Houellebecq is a multi-award-winning French author. He currently lives in Spain.

• | Author: Michel Houellebecq
• | Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• | Publication Date: Jun 28, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1846687845
• | ISBN-13: 9781846687846