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A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he's packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer system. Just thirty, with a well-paid job, no love life and a terrible attitude, the anti-hero of this grim, funny novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time. A computer programmer by day, he is tolerably content, until he''s packed off with a colleague - the sexually-frustrated Raphael Tisserand - to train provincial civil servants in the use of a new computer systemHouellebecq''s first novel was a smash hit in France, expressing the misanthropic voice of a generation. Like A Confederacy of Dunces, Houellebecq''s bitter, sarcastic and exasperated narrator vociferously expresses his frustration and disgust with the world.

• | Author: Michel, Won Prix Goncourt in 2010 for The Map and the Territory Houellebecq
• | Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2011
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781846687846
• | ISBN-10: 1846687845