A French Novel - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007371373 ISBN 13: 9780007371372

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

From the reviews of `A French Novel': `Frederic doesn't just remember his childhood, he relives it in sensuous detail ... though the book grows rich with Frederic'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, Frederic 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 this edition

• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0007371373
• ISBN 13: 9780007371372
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286