Description
Holiday in a Coma & Love Lasts Three Years is a two-in-one edition bringing together two novels by French author Frédéric Beigbeder, both featuring Marc Marronnier, a wealthy, self-absorbed Parisian advertising executive whose hedonistic lifestyle and cynical observations provide the basis for Beigbeder’s sharp social satire.
In Holiday in a Coma, Marc spends one extraordinary night at the opening of a notorious nightclub, surrounded by drugs, alcohol, models and partygoers, as he pursues yet another sexual conquest. In Love Lasts Three Years, Marc has just been divorced and sets out to prove his theory that romantic love lasts no more than three years, dissecting his marriage and the world of Parisian nightlife, advertising and fashionable excess.
Funny, provocative and often acerbic, the two novels explore hedonism, advertising, relationships and modern Parisian life through Marc’s unreliable and self-serving perspective. A good choice for readers who enjoy literary fiction, social satire, dark humour and flawed protagonists.
