Atomised: Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award 2002
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- Synopsis
- Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines. A dissection of modern lives and loves. By turns funny, acid, infuriating, didactic, touching and visceral.
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781448113989
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780099283362
- Publisher:
- Random House
- Date of Addition:
- 07/04/19
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.