The most celebrated and controversial French novelist of our time delivers a riveting masterpiece about art and money, love and friendship, and fathers and sons.
Jed Martin is an artist. His first photographs feature Michelin road maps, and global success arrives with his series on professions: portraits of various personalities, including a writer named Houellebecq. Not long afterward, Jed helps a police inspector solve a heinous crime that leaves lasting marks on everyone involved. But after burying his father and growing old himself, Jed also discovers serenity, a deeply moving conclusion to a life of lovers, friends, and family, and filled with hopes, losses, and dreams."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Praise for The Map and the Territory
Winner of the 2010 Prix Goncourt "A serious reflection on art, death, and contemporary society, The Map and the Territory is a tour de force."--The Los Angeles Review of Books "Powerful. . . . [A] singular novel. . . . Archly sarcastic, cheerily pedantic, willfully brutal." --The New York Times Book Review "An ingenious and engaging composite of künstlerroman and police procedural; a novel of ideas; and an authorial self-reflection." -The Boston Globe "All novelists everywhere have benefited from [Houellebecq's] audacity. . . . his temerity has recharged the form and reminded people what the novel can do." --The Sunday Times "Funny, astonishing and authoritative. . . . This is the brilliant and controversial French writer's most intellectually ambitious book.." --The Guardian"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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