The Elementary Particles

An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.

Bruno and Michel are half-brothers abandoned by their mother, an unabashed devotee of the drugged-out free-love world of the sixties. Bruno, the older, has become a raucously promiscuous hedonist himself, while Michel is an emotionally dead molecular biologist wholly immersed in the solitude of his work. Each is ultimately offered a final chance at genuine love, and what unfolds is a brilliantly caustic and unpredictable tale.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/13/2001
ISBN: 9780375727016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.19w x 0.65d
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Winner

Review Citations: Asimov's Science Fiction 10/01/2009 pg. 181
New Yorker (The) 01/23/2012 pg. 78