Michel Houellbecq. 
 
Knopf: 2012. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Minor fold on the top of the front panel of the jacket and the front flap. Fold and stain on the top of the back flap. Book ever so slightly bowed. 269 pages. Near fine. 
 
Houellbecq is one of the few contemporary writers who's given fiction a future, and Map is his magnum opus, the life of a painter in the 21st century. 
 
“Her professional life could thus be summarized as teaching contradictory absurdities to social-climbing cretins, even if she avoided formulating it to herself in such stark terms.”