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The Map and the Territory

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Vintage
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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Having made his name with an exhibition of photographs of Michelin roadmaps - beautiful works that won praise from every corner of the art world - Jed Martin is now emerging from a ten-year hiatus. And he has had some good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward annual Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than the French novelist Michel Houellebecq. The great writer has agreed to write the text for the exhibition guide, for which he will be paid handsomely and also have his portrait painted by Jed. The exhibition - 'Professions', a series of portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people at work - brings Jed new levels of global fame.

"A delicious exercise in satire and self-parody... His best ever" Daily Telegraph "The outlaw of French letters returns with an acerbic riff on art and celebrity... witty, wildly erudite" The Times "A dark master of invention... From the very first paragraph of this brilliant novel, the reader can be in no doubt that they're in the blisteringly bleak, darkly inventive grand massif that is Houellebeqc land" Evening Standard "This book, so beautifully written, so inspiriting for all its pessimism, is the new novel I have loved best this year. We have not his equal" -- David Sexton Spectator "Impressive... Beguiling... He is a true original" Observer

Title: The Map and the Territory
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Contributors: By (author) Michel Houellebecq

ISBN 13: 9780099554578
ISBN 10: 0099554577

Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: Vintage
Publication Date: 1/06/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification: 843.92 (DC23)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Thickness: 19mm
Weight: 223g