Michel Houellebecq: Atomised [2001] paperback Condition:Good Underneath all of these encounters

Underneath all of these encounters is the character of Clancy himself: funny

unsmart and comfortable

Why has violence - particularly against women - become exponentially more prominent and visible across the world

Bunting everywhere

Michel Houellebecq: Atomised [2001] paperback Condition:Good Underneath all of these encountersHalf 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