French Novel

<p>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.</p><p>Confined to a cell Frédéric Beigbeder's seeks escape in his childhood memories only to discover he can recall just one.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>