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The Map and the Territory
Michel Houellebecq
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paperback. Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of the celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq.
The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame. But, his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worst of all, he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime, involving none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq...
Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099554578
SKU
V9780099554578
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About Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq is a poet, essayist and novelist. He is the author of several novels including The Map and the Territory (winner of the Prix Goncourt), Atomised, Platform, Whatever and Submission. He was awarded the Legion d’Honneur in 2019.
Reviews for The Map and the Territory
A delicious exercise in satire and self-parody... His best ever
Daily Telegraph
The outlaw of French letters returns with an acerbic riff on art and celebrity... witty, wildly erudite
The Times
A dark master of invention... From the very first paragraph of this brilliant novel, the reader can be in no doubt that they're in the blisteringly bleak, darkly inventive grand massif that is Houellebeqc land
Evening Standard
This book, so beautifully written, so inspiriting for all its pessimism, is the new novel I have loved best this year. We have not his equal
David Sexton
Spectator
Impressive... Beguiling... He is a true original
Observer
Elegiac... Compelling... A pleasure to read
Times Literary Supplement
Have Michel Houellebecq and Martin Amis ever met? Despite a stylistic gulf…they might be spiritual cousins… In this Goncourt-winning novel, as amiably mischievous as the enfant terrible ever gets, his satirical burlesques of the Parisian art world and of tourist kitsch in La France Profonde comes closer to his cross-Channel twin than ever
Boyd Tonkin
Independent Radar
A wry, clever, ruthlessly self-lacerating novel
David Evans
Independent on Sunday
Daily Telegraph
The outlaw of French letters returns with an acerbic riff on art and celebrity... witty, wildly erudite
The Times
A dark master of invention... From the very first paragraph of this brilliant novel, the reader can be in no doubt that they're in the blisteringly bleak, darkly inventive grand massif that is Houellebeqc land
Evening Standard
This book, so beautifully written, so inspiriting for all its pessimism, is the new novel I have loved best this year. We have not his equal
David Sexton
Spectator
Impressive... Beguiling... He is a true original
Observer
Elegiac... Compelling... A pleasure to read
Times Literary Supplement
Have Michel Houellebecq and Martin Amis ever met? Despite a stylistic gulf…they might be spiritual cousins… In this Goncourt-winning novel, as amiably mischievous as the enfant terrible ever gets, his satirical burlesques of the Parisian art world and of tourist kitsch in La France Profonde comes closer to his cross-Channel twin than ever
Boyd Tonkin
Independent Radar
A wry, clever, ruthlessly self-lacerating novel
David Evans
Independent on Sunday