Octave Parengo, advertising genius, is about to hit rock bottom. His girlfriend has left him, his coke habit is out of control, and no matter what he does to get himself fired, he inevitably lands a promotion. It's only a matter of time before things get messy . . . Scathing, hilarious, violent and tragic, this expose of advertising and universal consumerism by one of the most caustic authors of his generation makes £6.99 a truly unforgettable read.'A stylistic cross between American Psycho and South Park' Time'Two books in one. Both of them good' FHM

A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.‘The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, ‘Windows on the World’ dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.

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.

Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet, award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frédéric Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood, while spending a night in police custody.Confined to a cell, Frédéric Beigbeder’s 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 father’s playboy life in New York, so distinct from the experiences of his soldier grandfather, whose lifespan Frédéric has now exceeded.His arrest all over the tabloids, Frédéric wonders if the time has come to grow up. ‘A French Novel’ is a belated coming-of-age tale, profoundly tender and charmingly ironic.

A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.`The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, `Windows on the World’ dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.

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 the cells.In his most autobiographical book to date, the author of the award-winning `Windows on the World’ recounts his stay in police custody, when in January 2008 he was arrested for snorting cocaine outside a Paris nightclub. As he lies in his cell, he revisits his childhood, from the carefree days when his grandfather taught him to skim pebbles at the beach in Cénitz, to his parents’ divorce; the conflicting influences of his hedonistic father and his studious, seemingly conventional brother. And then Beigbeder recalls his first, unrequited loves. This patchwork of memories is as much a portrait of the era as it is the story of a fragile, self-critical man who has finally dropped the mask.Witty, sharp, with a pitiless, self-deprecating irony, and yet tender and true, `A French Novel’ is a gem. Beigbeder’s search for answers in the lost country of his childhood will speak to a whole generation searching for its soul.

What does the man who has everything―fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby―want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric tries every possible procedure to ward off death, examining both legal and illegal research into techniques that could lead to the imminent replacement of man with a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frédéric crisscrosses the globe to meet the world’s foremost researchers on human longevity, who—from cell rejuvenation and telomere lengthening to 3D-printed organs and digitally stored DNA—reveal their latest discoveries. With his blend of deadpan humor and clear-eyed perception, Beigbeder has penned a brutal and brilliant exposé of the enduring issue of our own mortality.

Determined to shake off the threat of death, Frederic examines every possible procedure, legal and illegal, to turn him into a member of a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frederic travels the globe meet the world's foremost research authorities to reveal their latest discoveries. With his blend of deadpan humor and clear-eyed perception, Beigbeder has penned a brutal and brilliant expose of the enduring issue of our own morality.

»Papa, ich möchte nicht, dass du stirbst.« Dieser Satz seiner Tochter und die Feststellung, dass seine Attraktivität schwindet, führt den fünfzigjährigen Erzähler zu der Erkenntnis: Sein Körper verfällt und steht in keinem Verhältnis zu seiner geistigen Kraft. Ein uraltes Problem, analysiert er. Hat die Menschheit einen größeren Feind als den natürlichen Tod? Faust schloss damals einen Pakt mit dem Teufel, um ihm zu entgehen. Heute beschäftigen sich Genetiker und Mediziner mit der Unsterblichkeit. Wie weit entfernt liegt dieses Ziel? In Reichweite des Erzählers? Zusammen mit seiner Tochter begibt sich Beigbeder auf eine Reise und lotet mit Experten humorvoll, klug und sehr persönlich die Frage nach der ewigen Jugend aus.

»Ein exzellentes Buch. Dieser Beigbeder ist ein Diamant.« Paris MatchOctave Parango ist Frankreichs meistgehörter Radiokolumnist. Jeden Donnerstagmorgen kommentiert er die Lage der Nation – blitzgescheit und amüsant, überdreht und bissig. Doch in Wahrheit ist Octave das Lachen vergangen: Die Neonwesten stecken die Republik in Brand, und selbst die besten Drogen täuschen ihn nicht mehr darüber hinweg, dass seine Tage als Don Juan gezählt sind. Octave Parango setzt an zu seinem letzten Schlag.Dies ist das Buch einer Selbstvernichtung. In ihm verwandelt sich Octave Parango in einen Don Quichotte – und ruft das Ende seiner Zeit lieber gleich selbst aus. Eine hinreißende Satire auf die Diktatur des Lachens, der Frédéric Beigbeder mit einer unerhörten Aufrichtigkeit begegnet.»Brutal und irre lustig, mal geistreich, mal verzweifelt.« Le Figaro Magazine

Frederic Beigbeder - vseevropejskaya literaturnaya zvezda, avtor mirovyh bestsellerov "99 frankov", "Lyubov'' zhivet tri goda", "Windows on the World", "Romanticheskij ehgoist", proslavilsya za ehti gody svoimi skandal''nymi vizitami v Rossiyu — s burnymi pohozhdeniyami po nochnym klubam i modnym baram obeih stolic. Imenno o Rossii on i napisal svoj novyj roman. Vyhod ego vo Francii obernulsya kolossal''nym skandalom. Begbeder vozvrashchaet na scenu svoego sobstvennogo dvojnika — geroya romana "99 frankov" po imeni Oktav Parango. Uspeshnyj i cinichnyj reklamist priezzhaet teper'' v Rossiyu: on ishchet novoe "reklamnoe lico" dlya mirovogo giganta kosmeticheskoj industrii. Zakruzhivshis'' v vihre snega, krasavic i kokaina, Oktav neozhidanno dlya sebya bezzavetno vlyublyaetsya. V minuty otchayaniya on ispoveduetsya znakomomu svyashchenniku v hrame Hrista Spasitelya, poputno kommentiruya svoi pohozhdeniya. "Ideal''" — vyvernutyj naiznanku roman-ispoved'' v "russkom" klyuche, paradoksal''nyj i ironichnyj tekst o mire, podchinennom diktature mody, glamura i utonchennogo razvrata. A eshche — o lyubvi: po Turgenevu i po Beigbederu.

Frederik Begbeder – sovremennyj francuzskij pisatel'', avtor bestsellerov "Lyubov'' zhivet tri goda» i "99 frankov» — aktual''nyh, sarkastichnyh, umnyh. Takimi zhe poluchilis'' i besedy, kotorye Begbeder v kachestve literaturnogo kritika vel na protyazhenii ryada let so znamenitymi pisatelyami. Sredi geroev ehtoj knigi ital''yanec Umberto EHko, francuzy Mishel'' Uehl''bek ("EHlementarnye chasticy», "Pokornost''») i ZHan d`Ormesson ("Uslady Bozh''ej radi»), amerikancy CHak Palanik ("Bojcovskij klub») i Bret Iston EHllis ("Amerikanskij psihopat»), i mnogie drugie zamechatel''nye avtory, prinadlezhashchie k raznym pokoleniyam i literaturnym techeniyam. CHitaya knigu, legko pochuvstvovat'' sebya sobesednikom nezauryadnyh, mnogo na svoem veku povidavshih lyudej — slovno sidish'' s nimi za odnim stolom, s bokalom horoshego vina, soglashaesh''sya ili podyskivaesh'' kontrargumenty. Prisoedinyajtes'', bon appétit!Vpervye na russkom yazyke!

Geroj novogo romana Frederika Begbedera uzhe ne tot, kakim my videli ego v "99 frankah" ili "Lyubov'' zhivet tri goda". On - izvestnyj telezhurnalist, otec dvuh prelestnyh dochek, i… ochen'' hochet ostat''sya molodym - esli ne obresti bessmertie, to uzh vo vsyakom sluchae prodlit'' zhizn'' do beskonechnosti. Lichno dlya nego ehto sverhaktual''no, osobenno uchityvaya, chto zhena u nego yunaya i krasivaya. I vot v vozraste, kogda prochie uzhe nachinayut podumyvat'' o dushe, novyj Dorian Grej ustremlyaetsya k vechnoj molodosti. Smert'', po ego mneniyu, ehto vsego lish'' problema, kotoruyu nuzhno tekhnicheski otregulirovat''. Cel'' postavlena, i glavnyj geroj, ego desyatiletnyaya dochka Romi i ih sputnik robot po imeni Pepper puskayutsya v stranstvie. Parizh, ZHeneva, ozero v Al''pah, Ierusalim, N''yu-Jork... Neuzhto emu i vpryam'' udastsya prodlit'' sebe zhizn'' let ehtak do trekhsot?.. Posmotrim!

Octave Parengo, advertising genius, is about to hit rock bottom. His girlfriend has left him, his coke habit is out of control, and no matter what he does to get himself fired, he inevitably lands a promotion. It's only a matter of time before things get messy . . . Scathing, hilarious, violent and tragic, this expose of advertising and universal consumerism by one of the most caustic authors of his generation makes £6.99 a truly unforgettable read.'A stylistic cross between American Psycho and South Park' Time'Two books in one. Both of them good' FHM

A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.‘The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, ‘Windows on the World’ dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.

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.

Arrested for snorting cocaine off a car bonnet, award-winning author and quintessential dilettante Frédéric Beigbeder reflects on his troubled childhood, while spending a night in police custody.Confined to a cell, Frédéric Beigbeder’s 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 father’s playboy life in New York, so distinct from the experiences of his soldier grandfather, whose lifespan Frédéric has now exceeded.His arrest all over the tabloids, Frédéric wonders if the time has come to grow up. ‘A French Novel’ is a belated coming-of-age tale, profoundly tender and charmingly ironic.

A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11.`The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.'Weaving together fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, `Windows on the World’ dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension.Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering, and this book is a controversial, yet surprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory.

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 the cells.In his most autobiographical book to date, the author of the award-winning `Windows on the World’ recounts his stay in police custody, when in January 2008 he was arrested for snorting cocaine outside a Paris nightclub. As he lies in his cell, he revisits his childhood, from the carefree days when his grandfather taught him to skim pebbles at the beach in Cénitz, to his parents’ divorce; the conflicting influences of his hedonistic father and his studious, seemingly conventional brother. And then Beigbeder recalls his first, unrequited loves. This patchwork of memories is as much a portrait of the era as it is the story of a fragile, self-critical man who has finally dropped the mask.Witty, sharp, with a pitiless, self-deprecating irony, and yet tender and true, `A French Novel’ is a gem. Beigbeder’s search for answers in the lost country of his childhood will speak to a whole generation searching for its soul.

What does the man who has everything―fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby―want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric tries every possible procedure to ward off death, examining both legal and illegal research into techniques that could lead to the imminent replacement of man with a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frédéric crisscrosses the globe to meet the world’s foremost researchers on human longevity, who—from cell rejuvenation and telomere lengthening to 3D-printed organs and digitally stored DNA—reveal their latest discoveries. With his blend of deadpan humor and clear-eyed perception, Beigbeder has penned a brutal and brilliant exposé of the enduring issue of our own mortality.

Determined to shake off the threat of death, Frederic examines every possible procedure, legal and illegal, to turn him into a member of a post-human species. Accompanied by his ten-year-old daughter and her robot friend, Frederic travels the globe meet the world's foremost research authorities to reveal their latest discoveries. With his blend of deadpan humor and clear-eyed perception, Beigbeder has penned a brutal and brilliant expose of the enduring issue of our own morality.

»Papa, ich möchte nicht, dass du stirbst.« Dieser Satz seiner Tochter und die Feststellung, dass seine Attraktivität schwindet, führt den fünfzigjährigen Erzähler zu der Erkenntnis: Sein Körper verfällt und steht in keinem Verhältnis zu seiner geistigen Kraft. Ein uraltes Problem, analysiert er. Hat die Menschheit einen größeren Feind als den natürlichen Tod? Faust schloss damals einen Pakt mit dem Teufel, um ihm zu entgehen. Heute beschäftigen sich Genetiker und Mediziner mit der Unsterblichkeit. Wie weit entfernt liegt dieses Ziel? In Reichweite des Erzählers? Zusammen mit seiner Tochter begibt sich Beigbeder auf eine Reise und lotet mit Experten humorvoll, klug und sehr persönlich die Frage nach der ewigen Jugend aus.

»Ein exzellentes Buch. Dieser Beigbeder ist ein Diamant.« Paris MatchOctave Parango ist Frankreichs meistgehörter Radiokolumnist. Jeden Donnerstagmorgen kommentiert er die Lage der Nation – blitzgescheit und amüsant, überdreht und bissig. Doch in Wahrheit ist Octave das Lachen vergangen: Die Neonwesten stecken die Republik in Brand, und selbst die besten Drogen täuschen ihn nicht mehr darüber hinweg, dass seine Tage als Don Juan gezählt sind. Octave Parango setzt an zu seinem letzten Schlag.Dies ist das Buch einer Selbstvernichtung. In ihm verwandelt sich Octave Parango in einen Don Quichotte – und ruft das Ende seiner Zeit lieber gleich selbst aus. Eine hinreißende Satire auf die Diktatur des Lachens, der Frédéric Beigbeder mit einer unerhörten Aufrichtigkeit begegnet.»Brutal und irre lustig, mal geistreich, mal verzweifelt.« Le Figaro Magazine

Frederic Beigbeder - vseevropejskaya literaturnaya zvezda, avtor mirovyh bestsellerov "99 frankov", "Lyubov'' zhivet tri goda", "Windows on the World", "Romanticheskij ehgoist", proslavilsya za ehti gody svoimi skandal''nymi vizitami v Rossiyu — s burnymi pohozhdeniyami po nochnym klubam i modnym baram obeih stolic. Imenno o Rossii on i napisal svoj novyj roman. Vyhod ego vo Francii obernulsya kolossal''nym skandalom. Begbeder vozvrashchaet na scenu svoego sobstvennogo dvojnika — geroya romana "99 frankov" po imeni Oktav Parango. Uspeshnyj i cinichnyj reklamist priezzhaet teper'' v Rossiyu: on ishchet novoe "reklamnoe lico" dlya mirovogo giganta kosmeticheskoj industrii. Zakruzhivshis'' v vihre snega, krasavic i kokaina, Oktav neozhidanno dlya sebya bezzavetno vlyublyaetsya. V minuty otchayaniya on ispoveduetsya znakomomu svyashchenniku v hrame Hrista Spasitelya, poputno kommentiruya svoi pohozhdeniya. "Ideal''" — vyvernutyj naiznanku roman-ispoved'' v "russkom" klyuche, paradoksal''nyj i ironichnyj tekst o mire, podchinennom diktature mody, glamura i utonchennogo razvrata. A eshche — o lyubvi: po Turgenevu i po Beigbederu.

Frederik Begbeder – sovremennyj francuzskij pisatel'', avtor bestsellerov "Lyubov'' zhivet tri goda» i "99 frankov» — aktual''nyh, sarkastichnyh, umnyh. Takimi zhe poluchilis'' i besedy, kotorye Begbeder v kachestve literaturnogo kritika vel na protyazhenii ryada let so znamenitymi pisatelyami. Sredi geroev ehtoj knigi ital''yanec Umberto EHko, francuzy Mishel'' Uehl''bek ("EHlementarnye chasticy», "Pokornost''») i ZHan d`Ormesson ("Uslady Bozh''ej radi»), amerikancy CHak Palanik ("Bojcovskij klub») i Bret Iston EHllis ("Amerikanskij psihopat»), i mnogie drugie zamechatel''nye avtory, prinadlezhashchie k raznym pokoleniyam i literaturnym techeniyam. CHitaya knigu, legko pochuvstvovat'' sebya sobesednikom nezauryadnyh, mnogo na svoem veku povidavshih lyudej — slovno sidish'' s nimi za odnim stolom, s bokalom horoshego vina, soglashaesh''sya ili podyskivaesh'' kontrargumenty. Prisoedinyajtes'', bon appétit!Vpervye na russkom yazyke!

Geroj novogo romana Frederika Begbedera uzhe ne tot, kakim my videli ego v "99 frankah" ili "Lyubov'' zhivet tri goda". On - izvestnyj telezhurnalist, otec dvuh prelestnyh dochek, i… ochen'' hochet ostat''sya molodym - esli ne obresti bessmertie, to uzh vo vsyakom sluchae prodlit'' zhizn'' do beskonechnosti. Lichno dlya nego ehto sverhaktual''no, osobenno uchityvaya, chto zhena u nego yunaya i krasivaya. I vot v vozraste, kogda prochie uzhe nachinayut podumyvat'' o dushe, novyj Dorian Grej ustremlyaetsya k vechnoj molodosti. Smert'', po ego mneniyu, ehto vsego lish'' problema, kotoruyu nuzhno tekhnicheski otregulirovat''. Cel'' postavlena, i glavnyj geroj, ego desyatiletnyaya dochka Romi i ih sputnik robot po imeni Pepper puskayutsya v stranstvie. Parizh, ZHeneva, ozero v Al''pah, Ierusalim, N''yu-Jork... Neuzhto emu i vpryam'' udastsya prodlit'' sebe zhizn'' let ehtak do trekhsot?.. Posmotrim!