A Life Without End

""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, Fr�d�ric 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