What does the man who has everything?fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby?want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric 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, Frédéric 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 exposé of the enduring issue of our own mortality.
Sapiens meets Dorian Gray
What does the man who has everything?fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby?want for his fiftieth birthday? The answer is simple: eternal life. Determined to shake off the first intimations of his approaching demise, Frédéric 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, Frédéric 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 exposé of the enduring issue of our own mortality.
"Behind this wild pursuit of immortality appears a sharper and deeper reflection than you would expect."
Elle
"Beigbeder has produced one of the most human, touching, relevant, and funny stories about passing time, the acceptance of ageing, and the need to love."
Le Parisien
"This mad philosophical and biological quest is a life-affirming and intelligent reflection on the meaning of life."
Psychologies Magazine
"Written in a breezy style, bristling with wit, sarcasm, heavy doses of gallows humor, and many lists?This extravagant metafiction about obsession, life, love, and lists mixes sincerity with an endearing, genre-bending wackiness."-Kirkus Reviews
"A Life Without End pivots entirely on its voice-smart-ass, wisecracking, yet shaded by pathos and sentiment. As translator, the ever-excellent Frank Wynne catches all this motormouth ebullience and solipsistic charm?the fun, and the gags, never go extinct." -Financial Times
"If you have any interest in genetics it will put you right on top of things" -David Mills, The Sunday Times
"It's funny, profound, brilliantly researched, and fiendishly artful." -Le Figaro
"A Life Without End is, appropriately enough, a lively wallow. Death may be a dark subject, but Beigbeder's semi-fiction is almost relentlessly upbeat and cheerful, the author aware of the absurdity of his ambition and undertaking, but clearly also well-practiced in faking it for an audience and putting on a good show." ?Complete Review
"A Life Without End is an invigorating, oddball and entertaining read, spawning a new kind of post-Existentialism for the digital age." -Bookblast
"Brutally funny." -New Scientist
"A touching and contemplative literary curve ball."-Femina
"Beigbeder has produced one of the most human, touching, relevant, and funny stories about passing time, the acceptance of ageing, and the need to love. If you're looking for something quite unlike anything else to read, then choose this."-Le Parisien
"A call to arms against transience from a Beigbeder who is back in top form, with all his trademark wit."-Lire
"This mad philosophical and biological quest is a life-affirming and intelligent reflection on the meaning of life. Decidedly ambitious, Monsieur Beigbeder!"-Psychologies Magazine
"As always, Frédéric Beigbeder knows perfectly well how to seize burning issues. In A Life Without End he captures immortality, the desire it inspires, and its likelihood. A tale falling somewhere between satire and the confidences of a father, a lover, and a writer who wants to live forever."-Transfuge
"Behind this wild pursuit of immortality appears a sharper and deeper reflection than you would expect."-Elle
"An audacious romance, between obsessions and hope."-Marie Claire
