A 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> <br> <br> <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>