A French Novel - Softcover

Beigbeder, Frédéric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007371373 ISBN 13: 9780007371372

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-02-06 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet. award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frederic Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood. while spending a night in police . custody Confined to a cell. Frederic Beigbeders seeks escape in his childhood memories. only to discover he can recall just one From this. he reconstructs both his past and that of his family;. the glamour of Sixties Paris and his fathers playboy life in New York. so distinct from the experiences of his soldier grandfather. whose lifespan Frederic has now exceeded. His arrest all over the tabloids. Frederic wonders if the time has come to grow up. A French Novel is a belated coming-of-age tale . profoundly tender and charmingly ironic.

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Review:

From the reviews of ‘A French Novel’:

‘Frédéric doesn’t just remember his childhood, he relives it in sensuous detail ... though the book grows rich with Frédéric’s nostalgia and regret, it is consistently witty in tone ... Beigbeder has a unique sensibility ... After its cerebral beginnings ‘A French Novel’ builds to an emotionally luscious conclusion’ Evening Standard

‘Beigbeder is a wind-up merchant par excellence yet, despite his persona of a finger-stabbing pub bore, he has a fine line in self-deprecation as well as any number of caustic quips’ Metro

‘Cooler, self-mocking, but heartfelt as well as ingenious, Frédéric Beigbeder's ‘A French Novel’ sees the French enfant terrible take his brief detention after a drugs bust as the cue for a romp, both comic and melancholy, though his own career of excess consumption, and that of postwar France’ Independent, ‘Books of the Year’

About the Author:

Frédéric Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007371373
• ISBN 13: 9780007371372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304