Brutally honest, hilarious and often crudely explicit . . . The social criticism offered in this novel is often surprisingly relevant and revealing, with an underlying empathy for the plight of humanity.
--Will Carter, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Houellebecq takes on some of the biggest--and most elemental--questions, not only about the dangerous trajectory on which mankind currently seems to be headed but also about the very nature of what may be wrong with humans as a species and with life, the world and the universe in general. The Possibility of an Island is a skillful amalgam of prophesy, satire and science fiction, covering some of the same ground as Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake but with much more finesse and conviction.
--Merle Rubin, Washington Post Book World
A provocative, often funny, intellectually engaging novel . . . combining lurid sexuality with an avalanche of philosophically informed reflections on desire and death.
--Steven E. Alford, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Bewitching . . . Ingenious . . . The Possibility of an Island is often brilliant and searing as the logic of sexual liberation is run to its absolute extreme.
--Stephen Metcalf, The New York Times Book Review
A sharp check on our hubris, our complacent assumption that things are getting better and better. It is always worth asking whether they are.
--Brian A. Brown, Wall Street Journal
Houellebecq has never written better.
--Publishers Weekly
A bleak comment on contemporary society, at times funny, brutal, and revolting, which pushes notions of hope and hopelessness to a dismal and logical conclusion.
-- The Economist From the Hardcover edition.
Brutally honest, hilarious and often crudely explicit . . . The social criticism offered in this novel is often surprisingly relevant and revealing, [with] an underlying empathy for the plight of humanity.
--Will Carter, Richmond Times-Dispatch
Houellebecq takes on some of the biggest--and most elemental--questions, not only about the dangerous trajectory on which mankind currently seems to be headed but also about the very nature of what may be wrong with humans as a species and with life, the world and the universe in general. The Possibility of an Island [is] a skillful amalgam of prophesy, satire and science fiction, covering some of the same ground as Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake but with much more finesse and conviction.
--Merle Rubin, Washington Post Book World
[A] provocative, often funny, intellectually engaging novel . . . combining lurid sexuality with an avalanche of philosophically informed reflections on desire and death.
--Steven E. Alford, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Bewitching . . . Ingenious . . . The Possibility of an Island is often brilliant and searing [as] the logic of sexual liberation [is] run to its absolute extreme.
--Stephen Metcalf, The New York Times Book Review
A sharp check on our hubris, our complacent assumption that things are getting better and better. It is always worth asking whether they are.
--Brian A. Brown, Wall Street Journal
Houellebecq has never written better.
--Publishers Weekly
A bleak comment on contemporary society, at times funny, brutal, and revolting, which pushes notions of hopeand hopelessness to a dismal and logical conclusion.
-- The Economist From the Hardcover edition.
Bewitching . . . Ingenious . . . The Possibility of an Island is often brilliant and searing.
-- The New York Times Book Review
A skillful amalgam of prophesy, satire and science fiction, covering some of the same ground as Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake but with much more finesse and conviction.
-- Washington Post Book World
A sharp check on our hubris, our complacent assumption that things are getting better and better. It is always worth asking whether they are.
-- Wall Street Journal
Brutally honest, hilarious and often crudely explicit . . . The social criticism offered in this novel is often surprisingly relevant and revealing, [with] an underlying empathy for the plight of humanity.
-- Richmond Times-Dispatch
At times funny, brutal, and revolting, [ The Possibility of an Island ] pushes notions of hope and hopelessness to a dismal and logical conclusion.
-- The Economist
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