9 edition of The possibility of an island found in the catalog.
Published
2006
by Alfred A. Knopf in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
| Statement | Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Gavin Bowd. |
| Contributions | Bowd, Gavin, 1966- |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PQ2668.O77 P6713 2006 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL3429664M |
| ISBN 10 | 0307263495 |
| LC Control Number | 2005054527 |
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Black tarn
A outra metade da laranja.
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Aah--but those elephants
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Letters and other documents illustrating the relations between England and Germany at the commencement of the Thirty Years War
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Communication from secretary of war [enclosing the orders of impressment together with the instructions and regulations under the same, recently issued by the War Department on any bureau thereof]
Germany and peace
logic of defence
Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks
Kiss Mummy goodbye
Christiana & her children
Shipbuilding, repair, and financing
Palmettos and oaks
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Concerned, as the entire book is, with the possibility of love, it charts the reflections of Daniel’s descendants through various “neohuman” communities in an attempt to comprehend love in its debt to fleeting snippets and moments in history.Get this from a library!
The possibility of an island. [Michel Houellebecq] ebook Moving between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarote, this novel is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking, examination of the modern world, the trials of old age and the death of love.
