The Debt to Pleasure - Couverture rigide

Lanchester, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333669401 ISBN 13 : 9780333669402

Editeur : Picador, 1996

Synopsis

Draws the reader, through descriptions of food and cooking, into a world of murder and art. Narrated by Tarquin, an ironist, epicurean and a snob, this novel is constructed around a series of seasonal menus, which unfold his autobiography.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“A remarkable achievement.”
–Montreal Gazette

“A fully achieved work of art...Lanchester writes so stunningly well that one finds oneself laughing out loud at the perfection of his effects...a triumph.”
–Independent (U.K.)

“Dazzling....This beautifully written, boldly self-indulgent book manages to instruct and amuse even as it appalls.”
–Globe and Mail

“Diabolically clever.”
–Publishers Weekly

“Coruscatingly, horribly funny...Lanchester writes with beady-eyed exactitude and a fine aphoristic wit...Tarquin is a splendid creation.”
–The Observer (U.K.)

“A masterly debut from a writer whose gifts border on the demonic.”
–Chicago Tribune

“As if Brillat-Savarin and Nabokov met for lunch at a quiet dining room off the Rue Morgue. Entertaining and unexpected.”
–Richard Bachmann, A Different Drummer Books

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333669401
• ISBN 13: 9780333669402
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible