Whatever A Novel

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