Platform

In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.

In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his father's death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent--the shyly compelling Val rie--who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya Beach and from sex clubs to a terrorist massacre, Platform is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the world's most original and daring writers.

Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/13/2004
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.22w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9781400030262
ISBN10: 1400030269
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | World Literature | France | 21st Century

About the Author
Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles, an international bestseller, won the prestigious Prix Novembre in France as well as the lucrative International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He lives in Ireland.