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    Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years: two novels by Frédéric Beigbeder
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    Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years: two novels by Frédéric Beigbeder

    By Frédéric Beigbeder and Frank Wynne

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    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 Marronnier, 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 Marronnier 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateSep 4, 2008
    ISBN9780007283118
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    Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years: two novels by Frédéric Beigbeder
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    Frédéric Beigbeder

    Frédéric Beigbeder (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1965) es autor de otras tres novelas, un libro de cuentos y un ensayo. Durante diez años simultaneó su trabajo publicitario con colaboraciones en diferentes medios de comunicación como cronista de la noche o crítico literario en revistas, periódicos y programas de radio y televisión. Con "13, 99 euros" tuvo un éxito extraordinario, encabezando durante meses las listas de best-sellers, y de paso fue despedido fulminantemente de la agencia de publicidad en la que era un brillantísimo creativo.

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    • 3/5
      I read the first story here for book club, but as far as I can tell you can't get the English translation without the second story in the same volume. Holiday In A Coma follows the protagonist, Marc Maronnier (who is pretty much an authorial insert), over one night at the opening of a new club in Paris. He... is a massive jerk, and I wanted to strangle him quite a lot. But the book itself was extremely amusing and a fast-paced read, despite everyone in it being amazingly shallow and irritating. I felt that it portrayed the atmosphere well, although I am hardly an expert on clubbing so others may disagree. A lot of the events here are totally absurd and you clearly aren't meant to believe that they literally happened. While I liked it on the whole, I do have to add a warning for one scene near the end with some (to me) disturbing sexual violence: figurative or not, I didn't need to read that :sThe second book is sort-of a sequel but more obviously autobiographical than the first: Marc/Frédéric continues to be annoying and pretentious but with less of the ridiculousness of the first book. I didn't really like this one as much.