β Scribed by Michel Houellebecq
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as little human contact as possible. But following his fatherβs death he takes a group holiday to Thailand where he meets a travel agent βthe shyly compelling ValΓ©rieβ who begins to bring this half-dead man to life with sex of escalating intensity and audacity. Arcing with dreamlike swiftness from Paris to Pattaya Beach and from sex clubs to a terrorist massacre, Platform is a brilliant, apocalyptic masterpiece by a man who is widely regarded as one of the worldβs most original and daring writers.
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