{"product_id":"9781529111712","title":"Serotonin - Michel Houellebecq","description":"LONGLISTED 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. When 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. '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","brand":"Michel Houellebecq","offers":[{"title":"320 pages \/ 17\/09\/2020 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57491704578423,"sku":"9781529111712","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781529111712.jpg?v=1790326980","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781529111712","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}