The Debt to Pleasure [electronic resource]
Lanchester, John2014
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With an introduction by John Banville Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996. To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death. Tarquin Winot - hedonist, food obsessive, ironist and snob - travels a circuitous route from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. Along the way he tells the story of his childhood and beyond through a series of delectable menus, organized by season. But this is no ordinary cookbook, and as we are drawn into Tarquin's world, a far more sinister mission slowly reveals itself . . . Winner of the 1996 Whitbread First Novel Award, John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food; an erotic and sensual culinary journey. Its elegant, intelligent and unhinged narrator is nothing less than a work of art himself.
Main title:
The Debt to Pleasure [electronic resource] / John Lanchester
Author:
Lanchester, John, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2014
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Picador Classic
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
John Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. His critically-acclaimed first novel, The Debt to Pleasure, won the Whitbread First Novel Award.
ISBN:
9781447275398
Language:
English
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BRN:
2799808
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