The Debt to Pleasure
Author(s): John Lanchester
Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, "The Debt to Pleasure "is a wickedly funny ode to food. Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of France, Tarquin Winot, the book' s snobbish narrator, instructs us in his philosophy on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of the menu. Under the guise of completing a cookbook, Winot is in fact on a much more sinister mission that only gradually comes to light.
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Winner of Betty Trask Award 1996 and Hawthornden Prize 1997. Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1996.
" The Debt to Pleasure has no flaws. It is witty, frequently hilarious, and wicked." -- "The Boston Globe"
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Picador
- : 0.16
- : 01 January 1997
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : John Lanchester
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 823.914
- : 16
- : 240