{"product_id":"9781529111712","title":"Serotonin","description":"Author: Houellebecq, Michel\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529111712\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Nov 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlorent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brink of career failure, his last hope for relief comes in the form of a newly available antidepressant that alters the brain's release of serotonin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he returns to the Normandy countryside in search of serenity, he instead finds a rural community left behind by globalisation and red-tape agricultural policies, with local farmers longing for an impossible return towhat they remember as a golden age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e. . . E\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48191443533982,"sku":"UBD-9781529111712","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529111712.jpg?v=1787657132","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529111712","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}