John Lanchester: The Debt To Pleasure, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Debt To Pleasure
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- Verlag:
- Pan Macmillan, 01/2015
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781447275381
- Artikelnummer:
- 6005207
- Umfang:
- 240 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2015
- Gewicht:
- 220 g
- Maße:
- 198 x 129 mm
- Stärke:
- 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 1.1.2015
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Weitere Ausgaben von The Debt To Pleasure |
Preis |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 13,83* |
Kurzbeschreibung
Tarquin, voluptuary and supercivilized ironist (and snob), sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide, Portsmouth, to his cottage in Provence, his spiritual home. With his head newly shaved and his well-thumbed copy of theMossad Manual of Surveillance Techniquessafely stowed, Tarquin elegantly introduces his life, itself a work of art, through the medium of seasonal menus.Klappentext
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, 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.
'Enormous, sinister fun . . . dazzling, languidly brilliant' Daily Telegraph
'A triumph . . . The Debt to Pleasure is a major work, a supreme literary construct that's also deliriously entertaining' Independent
Biografie
John Lanchester, geboren 1962 in Hamburg, wuchs im Fernen Osten auf und studierte in Oxford. Er war Restaurantkritiker des "Observer" und ist stellvertretender Chefredakteur der "London Review of Books". "Die Lust und ihr Preis" ist sein erster Roman.§§
