HOLIDAY IN A COMA & LOVE LASTS THREE YEARS: two novels by Frédéric Beigbeder - Couverture souple

Beigbeder, Frédéric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007229038 ISBN 13 : 9780007229031

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

One night in a Parisian nightclub and the aftermath of a marriage provide the stories for these two novels by Frederic Beigbeder, award-winning author of ‘Windows on the World’.

In ‘Holiday in a Coma’, Marc Marronier, a shallow, superficial, rich Parisian who works as an advertising executive, is invited by his old friend to the opening of a new nightclub called The Shitter (a satirical take on the famous Paris nightclub Les Bains Douche). Taking place over a single unforgettable night, the novel documents everything from the pit-bull bouncer on the door, to the drugs, cocktails and wannabes who frequent the club, and Marc’s attempts to seduce a catwalk model – any one will do. A catalogue of degeneracy, drugs, sex and decibels, ‘Holiday in a Coma’ is written with a fury and passion that reflect the author's own relationship with a world and he both loves and loathes.

In ‘Love Lasts Three Years’, Marc Maronnier has just been divorced and – shallow opportunist that he is – has decided to write a book about it. He has a theory that love lasts no more than three years, and here – recounting the highs and lows of his marriage and taking us through brash nightclubs, vainglorious offices and soulless designer apartments – he brings to bear the theoretical and the empirical to prove his point. Both frightening and funny, the book reads like a diary: sometimes tender and real, sometimes fantastical and cruel, peppered with Beigbeder’s acerbic one-liners and trademark wit.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frederic Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster. He is the author of Windows on the World which won the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0007229038
• ISBN 13: 9780007229031
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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