"Permission"

The publisher is in talks with _________________, who's just completed a novel titled, "Permission."

The writer is French and lives in Paris where he works as a doctor specializing in communicable disease. Married for fourteen years, he left his wife, with whom he fathered a son, on September 11, 2001, and now lives with a man half his age in the Marais.

The book's epicenter is western Europe, pre-apocalytic 21st century, in the early 1990's, a time when one could still smoke without approbation while eating in a restaurant, but a time when one sensed that this time was close to coming to an end.

The sex is thick and weird, as might be imagined.  Drugs are consumed liberally, copped from the doc's lab, and absinthe makes a big comeback. Real names from cinema, music, literature, politics, and the art world pop up, which, if promoted correctly might give a boost to sales, but also raises the spectre of possible legal actions. 

The book is slim, yet projects the 'density' that Gide maintained all real art must project.

There remains the problem of translation from French to English, as well as several other details, though the author has decided to declare pseudonymity.