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Whatever

<div><p>"Houellebecq captures precisely the cynical disillusionment of disaffected youth."—<I>Booklist</I></p><p>"This boy needs serious therapy. He may be beyond help."—<I>The Washington Post</I></p><p>Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.</p><p>A painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life.</p><p><B>Michel Houellebecq</B> is a multi-award-winning French author. He currently lives in Spain.</p></div>