The map and the territory / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Gavin Bowd.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: London : William Heinemann, 2011.Description: 291 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780434021406 (cased) :
- 0434021407 (cased) :
- 9780434021413 (pbk.)
- Carte et le territoire. English
- 843 HOU
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 843 HOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100668863 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward annual 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 the French novelist Michel Houellebecq. The great writer has agreed to write the text for the exhibition guide, for which he will be paid handsomely and also have his portrait painted by Jed.
The exhibition - 'Professions', a series of portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people at work - brings Jed new levels of global fame. Yet his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worse still, he is contacted by one Inspector Jasselin, who requests his assistance in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime.
Art, money, fathers, sons, death, love and the transformation of France into a tourist paradise come together to create a daringly playful and original twist on the contemporary novel from a modern master of the form.
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Michel Houellebecq's first novel, Whatever, was followed by two collections of poetry and a book of essays. He lives in Dublin.(Bowker Author Biography)