A daring yet moving evocation of the last moments for a father and his children on top of the World Trade Centre on September 11th. '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 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 Frederic Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster. NB Frederic has an acute accent on each 'e'

Windows on the World

Literature & Fiction

Beigbeder, Frédéric

Frank Wynne

Humor & Satire

Harper-perennial

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 police custody.

A French Novel

Fourth Estate

6.99 (Formerly 9.99)

Picador

Octave seems to have everything going for him: a good mind, a great job in advertising, a lavish apartment, girls, and a cocaine habit he can afford. But it soon becomes clear that he also has a serious problem with his life. From the moment when he storms out of the offices of a lucrative client after daubing the word pigs all over the walls with his own blood, things begin to spiral dangerously out of control. The top men in advertising? They've already started the third world war he claims. This belief inevitably spurs him on from violent words to violent deeds, stopping at nothing—not even murder.

9.99: A Novel

Contemporary

Macmillan, UK

A daring yet moving evocation of the last moments for a father and his children on top of the World Trade Centre on September 11th. '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 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 Frederic Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster. NB Frederic has an acute accent on each 'e'

Windows on the World: A Novel

Miramax

Windows on the World debuted at #2 on the French national best-seller list and won the prestigious Prix Interalli prize in 2003. Now available in paperback, this unprecedented novel will once again astonish, provoke, and embrace the reader as it attempts to penetrate the unspeakable. Windows on the World unflinchingly imagines the moments from 8:30AM to 10:28AM inside the World Trade Center on September 11. Weaving together philosophy, myth, world politics, and humor, Beigbeder succeeds in creating a tapestry of fury and wonder, a tribute to thousands of unsung heroes.

Windows On the World

Literary

£6.99 (formerly £9.99)

Picador USA

This illustrated English-language edition of French writer-filmmaker Frédéric Beigbeder’s 2014 novel, Oona &amp; Salinger. A nostalgic and bittersweet love story, Manhattan’s Babe is a fictionalized account of the true-life romance between J.D. Salinger and Oona O’Neill, daughter of the great American playwright. The two first met in New York City in 1940, when Jerry Salinger, 21, was an up-and-coming writer, and Oona, 15, was a beautiful and charming socialite who partied at the Stork Club with Truman Capote and Gloria Vanderbilt. Their all-too-short romance blossomed during the summer of 1941, just a few months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. joined World War II.

Manhattan's Babe

History

World

Assouline Publishing

What does the man who has everythingâe*fame, fortune, a new love, and a new babyâe*want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, FrÃ©dÃ©ric 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, FrÃ©dÃ©ric 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 exposÃ© of the enduring issue of our own mortality.

A Life Without End

Genre Fiction

World Editions

Octave est le maître du monde. Octave exerce en effet la profession lucrative de rédacteur publicitaire : il décide aujourd'hui ce que vous allez vouloir demain. Octave est un mort-vivant, couvert d'argent, de filles et de cocaïne. Un jour, il se rebelle. Le doué Octave déjante. La cliente idéale ? « Une mongolienne de moins de cinquante ans. » Les nababs de la publicité ? « Ils mènent la troisième guerre mondiale. » De l'île de la Jatte où négocient les patrons d'agence à Miami où l'on tourne un spot sous amphétamines, d'un séminaire en Afrique à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, de l'enfer du sexe à la pureté perdue, Frédéric Beigbeder, entre fiction et pamphlet, écrit la confession d'un enfant du millénaire. En riant, il dénonce le mercantilisme universel. En quelque sorte, un livre moral. Pour 99 francs, seulement. Frédéric Beigbeder est l'auteur, chez Grasset, de Vacances dans le coma (1994) et L'amour dure trois ans (1997); et d'un recueil de nouvelles, Nouvelles sous ecstasy (Gallimard, 1999).

99 Francs (French Edition)

Gallimard]

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