Serotonin
Houellebecq, Michel2019
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Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplates lost loves and past happiness as he struggles to embed himself in a world that no longer holds any joy for him. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant, recently released for public consumption, which works by altering the brain's release of serotonin. With social unrest intensifying around him, and his own depression deepening, Florent-Claude turns to this new medication in the hope that he will find something to live for. Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.
Main title:
Serotonin / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
Author:
Houellebecq, Michel, authorWhiteside, Shaun, translator
Imprint:
London : William Heinemann, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
309 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published in France in 2019 by Flammarion under the title "Sérotonine".Translated from the Italian.
ISBN:
9781785152238 (hardback)9781785152245 (trade paperback)
Dewey class:
843.914F
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
514418