September 11, 2001, 8:46 a.m. in New York. The Boeing carrying American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Minutes earlier, Carthew Yorston, a forty-year-old real estate agent, divorced and father of two children, David and Jarry, has arrived with them to have breakfast at Windows on the World, an exclusive restaurant located on the 107th floor. Another aerial perspective: Frédéric Beigbeder sits down for coffee at Le Ciel de Paris, a venue located on the 56th floor of the Montparnasse Tower, the tallest building in the city. From this Parisian correlate, Beigbeder establishes a game of back and forth between reality and fiction, between Paris and New York, between evil and its (impossible) interpretation. Structured in short chapters titu.
September 11, 2001, 8:46 a.m. in New York. The Boeing carrying American Airlines Flight 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Minutes earlier, Carthew Yorston, a forty-year-old real estate agent, divorced and father of two children, David and Jarry, has arrived with them to have breakfast at Windows on the World, an exclusive restaurant located on the 107th floor. Another aerial perspective: Frédéric Beigbeder sits down for coffee at Le Ciel de Paris, a venue located on the 56th floor of the Montparnasse Tower, the tallest building in the city. From this Parisian correlate, Beigbeder establishes a game of back and forth between reality and fiction, between Paris and New York, between evil and its (impossible) interpretation. Structured in short chapters titu.
