A Life Without End
AuthorFrédéric Beigbeder
Original titleUne vie sans fin
TranslatorFrank Wynne
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉditions Grasset
Publication date
3 January 2018
Published in English
14 April 2020
Pages360
ISBN9782246812616

A Life Without End (French: Une vie sans fin) is a 2018 novel by the French writer Frédéric Beigbeder.

Plot

Frédéric, a famous media personality, turns 50 and wants to live forever. He brings his 10-year-old daughter and a Japanese robot—Pepper—to meet international experts on human life extension.[1]

Reception

Kirkus Reviews wrote that the book has "a breezy style", full of wit, sarcasm and gallows humour, and "an endearing, genre-bending wackiness".[2]

The book was awarded the 2018 prix Rive Gauche à Paris.[3]

References

  1. Montety, Etienne de (18 January 2018). "Une vie sans fin, de Frédéric Beigbeder : Faust et usage de Faust". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  2. "A Life Without End". Kirkus Reviews. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  3. Mazin, Cécile (2 July 2018). "Frédéric Beigbeder, prix Rive gauche à Paris 2018". ActuaLitté (in French). Retrieved 11 October 2023.

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