{"product_id":"9781529111712","title":"Serotonin","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Houellebecq, Michel, Whiteside, Shaun\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFrance\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 17 September 2020 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 320 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 197 x 24 | 226g\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our ageFlorent-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Despite its provocations, this is a novel of romantic and sorrowful ideas: Houellebecq as troubadour, singing lost loves' Rachel Kushner Michel Houellebecq has good claim to be the most interesting novelist of our times. . . Exhilarating in its nihilism, often very funny and always enjoyable' Evening Standard\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houellebecq, Michel, Whiteside, Shaun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42465751204024,"sku":"9781529111712","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781529111712.jpg?v=1734708211","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781529111712","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}