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02112aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 B9FF97D4FE2B11EAA9C7A44D1FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200924010052 008 200424s2020 nyu e 000 f eng 020 $a 1642860670 020 $a 9781642860672 035 $a (OCoLC)1151829853 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d OPW $d YDXIT $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 050 4 $a PQ2662.E43 $b V5413 2020 082 04 $a 843/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Beigbeder, Frederic, $e author. 240 10 $a Vie sans fin. $l English 245 12 $a A life without end / $c Frederic Beigbeder ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne. 264 1 $a New York : $b World Editions, $c 2020. 300 $a 300 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a First published as Une vie sans fin in France in 2018 by Grasset & Fasquelle. 520 $a 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, Frederic 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, Frederic 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 expose of the enduring issue of our own mortality. 650 0 $a Fear of death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Longevity $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Robots $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Discoveries in science $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Wynne, Frank, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022437.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9FF97D4FE2B11EAA9C7A44D1FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search