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    Serotonin

    £9.99
    ISBN: 9781529111712
    AuthorHoullebecq, Michel
    PublisherNameVintage Publishing
    Pub Date17/09/2020
    BindingPaperback
    Pages320
    Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock

    LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020

    A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age

    Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.

    When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.

    'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner

    Michel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times. . . Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' Evening Standard

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020

    A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age

    Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.

    When he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.

    'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner

    Michel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times. . . Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' Evening Standard