Author Description

Outside a Paris nightclub, a man is casually snorting cocaine off a sports car when the police show up. Now confined to a cell, Frederic Beigbeder 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 od Sixties Paris and his father's playboy life in New York, so distinct from the experiences of hi 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.