One night in a Parisian nightclub and the aftermath of a marriage provide the stories for these two novels by Frederic Beigbeder, award-winning author of 'Windows on the World'. In 'Holiday in a Coma', Marc Marronnier, a shallow, superficial, rich Parisian who works as an advertising executive, is invited by his old friend to the opening of a new nightclub called The Shitter (a satirical take on the famous Paris nightclub Les Bains Douche). Taking...

Avez-vous déjà accompagné un proche dans le coma? Auriez-vous souhaité lui dire à quel point vous l'aimez, ou lui manifester vos regrets? Personnel hospitalier, médecins, visiteurs, famille, sachez que j'entendais tout durant mon coma de dix jours! Un accident de la route a bouleversé ma vie. Quand je suis sortie de mon coma, je me suis promis de partager ce que j'avais vécu ainsi que tous ces «hasards» qui ont jalonné ma route avant la...

Jeanette is not living anymore. She's surviving, running, hiding. All that she knew vanished and what remains doesn't make much sense anymore. Freedom and trust are as difficult to find as warmth and shelter in this desolated landscape. Through her strange encounters, she tries to piece together a frightening puzzle. Pushed to the brink, some emerge as heroes, others plunge into madness. Jeanette is skating on that thin line between both. Fear, doubt,...

Would you do whatever it took to forget a painful past, even if it meant feeling nothing again? Brandon Richter just wants to sleep and forget. Seeking to leave every memory and reminder of his former life behind, Brandon leaves his hometown of Springfield, Missouri for the obscure town of Coma, California, hoping to fade away and be left to himself. However, as Brandon crosses paths with the residents of Coma- namely a young woman named Becca- he...

When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly...

Lars, un joven tímido criado por su madre en un pueblo de Alaska, no es un chico corriente. Lars no es un homo sapiens, sino un neandertal clonado a partir de restos de ADN con más de cuarenta mil años de antigüedad. Como otros neandertales, fue recuperado de la extinción para convertirlo en un esclavo, pero la llegada de nuevo permavirus cambiará las cosas. Mientras millones de sapiens enferman por este virus milenario liberado al descongelarse...

Self-published eBook!Life gave me what I longed for. Death! In my darkness there are so many options and so many gifts to choose from! I chose the gift of love! Your feedback is needed! Hope you like it and you did not feel your time went to waste! Thank you for reading one of my books!

On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers-modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition-before finally reuniting...