Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny 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 he''s packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer systemHouellebecq''s first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation.

Like A Confederacy of Dunces, Houellebecq''s bitter, sarcastic and exasperated narrator vociferously expresses his frustration and disgust with the world.


Format Häftad Omfång 160 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Profile Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2011-05-05 ISBN 9781846687846