La femme. Le mari. L’enfant. Le chat. Le petit dejeuner. Le journal. L’auteur. La festival du filme. La critique. L’agent. Le mort. La naissance.

Critic Victor Eaves meets dying filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard in a novel blending mad vulgarity with slingshot satire.

French Toast by Peter Burnett, published by Thirsty Books, is a family farce and cinematic adventure starring a giant of the silver screen, touching the art of breakfast, mortality and one father's attempt to reclaim some possibilites of hope for the indigenous Palestinian people.

“This is the story of my encounter with venerable French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard. In 2020, when he was 90 years old, Godard was invited to Edinburgh to speak at the Film Festival and I was chosen to meet him, as I was the only journalist in the city who spoke French and had seen any of his films. No one could predict what happened after I made Godard breakfast. But it changed the face of cinema, forever.”

VICTOR EAVES

 

"Burnett’s latest novel, French Toast, is both a scabrous satire and a rollicking caper, and comes stuffed with big ideas, memorable set pieces, clever in-jokes and caustic asides. Buried within the mayhem lurk shrewd insights into artistic judgment."

HERALD SCOTLAND

 

“Peter Burnett is not in the business of fuelling hubris. He is concerned with questions about meaning, value and the nature of authenticity.”

SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKS

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