C'est French, C'est Fatal

 

Quote of the day, from the book of the moment:

"Smoking kills? Yeah. So does living."

That's a line from Justine Levy's Nothing Serious. Deliciously compelling, in the sense that I can't stop reading it but I never want it to end, the book is written in a confessional tone that lends itself to imagining the love-ravaged narrator telling the entire broken-hearted story over an hour or two in a dimly-lit cafe.

{image: damien hirst, home sweet home}

Previously: Clandestine Smoking + Nostalgic Glamour.