The Debt To Pleasure

Author: John Lanchester

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Price : 29.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780330344555
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Imprint : Picador
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Weight (g) : 0.16
Publication date : 01 January 1997
Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : John Lanchester
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Dewey classification : 823.914
Reading Level : 16
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Pages : 240
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Description

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.

Awards

Winner of Betty Trask Award 1996 and Hawthornden Prize 1997. Shortlisted for Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1996.

Reviews

" The Debt to Pleasure has no flaws. It is witty, frequently hilarious, and wicked." -- "The Boston Globe"

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