| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2019947078 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780374261023 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0374261024 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1115003420 |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
fre |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
lccopycat |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
AJMA |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PQ2668.O77 |
| Item number |
S4813 2019 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
Hou |
| Item number |
2 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
Hou |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Houellebecq, Michel |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Serotonin |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First American edition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2019 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
309 pages |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Translation of: S�erotonine. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Michel Houellebecq's Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional failures, the aging hedonist and agricultural engineer Florent-Claude Labrouste feels he is "dying of sadness." He hates his young girlfriend, and the feeling is almost certainly mutual; his career is pretty much over; and he has to keep himself thoroughly medicated to cope with day-to-day life. Suffocating in the rampant loneliness, consumerism, hedonism, and sprawl of the city, Labrouste decides to head for the hills, returning to Normandy, where he once worked promoting regional cheeses and where he was once in love, and even -- it now seems -- happy. There he finds a countryside devastated by globalization and by European agricultural policies, and encounters farmers longing, like Labrouste himself, for an impossible return to a simpler age. As the farmers prepare for what might be an armed insurrection, it becomes clear that the health of one miserable body and of a suffering body politic are not so different, and that all parties may be rushing toward a catastrophe that a whole drugstore's worth of antidepressants won't make bearable." -- |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Translated from the French. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
112516 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Depressed persons |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Man-woman relationships |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Agriculture |
| General subdivision |
Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision |
France |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social conditions |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
France |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions |
| Chronological subdivision |
21st century |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Whiteside, Shaun |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Fiction |