Serotonin / Michel Houellebecq ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.

London : William Heinemann, 2019.©2019

Houellebecq, Michel. author.

Whiteside, Shaun. translator.

01-01-2019

309 pages ; 24 cm

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Serotonin -- Fiction.

Middle-aged men -- Fiction.

French fiction -- 21st century.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Depressed persons -- Fiction.

Agriculture -- Social aspects -- France -- Fiction.

France -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.

First published in France in 2019 by Flammarion under the title, Sérotonine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781785152245

Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. When he discovers her ongoing infidelity, he decides to abandon his life in Paris and return to the Normandy countryside of his youth. There he contemplates lost loves and past happiness as he struggles to embed himself in a world that no longer holds any joy for him. His only relief comes in the form of a pill - white, oval, small. Captorix is a new brand of anti-depressant, recently released for public consumption, which works by altering the brain's release of serotonin. With social unrest intensifying around him, and his own depression deepening, Florent-Claude turns to this new medication in the hope that he will find something to live for. Written by one of the most provocative and prophetic novelists of his generation, Serotonin is at once a devastating story of solitude, longing and individual suffering, and a powerful criticism of modern life.

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