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The Debt to Pleasure
The Debt to Pleasure
Author: John Lanchester
Tarquin Winot, voluptuary and supercivilized ironist (and snob), sets out on a journey of 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 the Mossad Manual of Surveillance Techniques safely stowed, Tarquin elegantly introduces his life, itself a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780330347440
ISBN-10: 0330347446
Pages: 232
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Publisher: Picador
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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Lots of people loved this book, as was evident by the sparkling praise from numerous literary critics. The imagery was gorgeous and the description of food mouthwatering, but personally, I thought the narrator a bit too snarky for my palate.
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If Nabokov's Humbert Humbert had shown as much appetite for culinary adventures as he did for a certain nymphet, this is the book he might have written instead of Lolita.


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