HOUELLEBECQ, Michel. Platform. Trans. Frank Wynne. London: William Heinemann. 2002. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the dust jacket. A fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket.
The author’s fourth novel, about a misanthropic man who seeks simple pleasures like casual sex. After being left some money, he starts up a business in Thailand, selling sex-based package holidays. Its depiction of an Islamic terrorist attack in the latter half of the book drew comparisons to the later attack in Bali, and shrouded the author in controversy, as has been often the case in his literary career.
HOUELLEBECQ, Michel. Platform. Trans. Frank Wynne. London: William Heinemann. 2002. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the dust jacket. A fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket.
The author’s fourth novel, about a misanthropic man who seeks simple pleasures like casual sex. After being left some money, he starts up a business in Thailand, selling sex-based package holidays. Its depiction of an Islamic terrorist attack in the latter half of the book drew comparisons to the later attack in Bali, and shrouded the author in controversy, as has been often the case in his literary career.
