The Debt to Pleasure
Occasional Papers
John Lanchester
ISBN: | 9780771045851 |
Publisher: | Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd |
Published: | 1 April, 1996 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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The Debt to Pleasure
Occasional Papers
John Lanchester
This astonishing 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.
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