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Atomised (also published asThe Elementary Particles)

Nominated ISBNs: 0434007935 0375407707

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Boldtype review of The Elementary Particles ( Atomised is the U.K. title) with link to excerpt

Offers a review of Atomised

Deichmanske Bibliothek, Oslo, Norway

Munchner Stadtbibliothek, Munich, Germany

Stadbuchereien Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Leipziger Stadtische Bibliotheken, Leipzig, Germany

Half-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 being all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion has given way to shallow 'new age' philosophies and love to meaningless sexual connections. Atomised tells the stories of the two brothers, but the real subject of the novel is the dismantling of contemporary society and its assumptions, its political incorrectness, and its caustic and penetrating asides on everything from anthropology to the problem pages of girls' magazines.