Debt of Pleasure - Hardcover

Lanchester, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771045859 ISBN 13: 9780771045851

Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Book by John Lanchester

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Nota de la solapa

hing first novel is narrated by the impeccably correct Tarquin Winot, who relates the story of his life through the most basic and sublime of human passions: food. An Englishman of indeterminate age whose spiritual home has always been France, Tarquin embarks on a journey of the senses as he peels away the layers of his past. Wickedly funny and poisonously opinionated, he proves himself a master of sly wit and subversive ideas. Gradually the outlines of a distinctly quirky aesthetic and a highly eccentric moral universe emerge, and the truth becomes unavoidable. This is not the voluptuary’s memoir it purports to be, and Tarquin Winot is ultimately the master of something infinitely, quiveringly sinister.

Biografía del autor

John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He was brought up in the Far East and educated in England. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and is on the editorial board of the London Review of Books. The Debt to Pleasure (1996), won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and a Julia Child Award. His second novel, Mr. Phillips, was published in 2000. His most recent novel is Fragrant Harbour. He lives in London.

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• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0771045859
• ISBN 13: 9780771045851
• Einband: Tapa dura