The Elementary Particles

A first American edition of Houellebecq's second novel. Published in the UK under the title Atomised. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne. By the author of Whatever. Clean text block. Unclipped dust jacket. Deckled fore edge. Cover now wrapped in Brodart. L'affaire Houllecbecq, the buzz around his first novels, drew comparisons to Brett Easton Ellis, Camus, and Aldous Huxley. First published in French in 1998, the English translation was released in the UK and US simultaneously. 264 pages.