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The Debt to Pleasure

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So begins John Lanchester's astonishing debut novel in which the impeccably correct Tarquin Winot relates the story of his life through that 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, regaling us with his wickedly funny. poisonously opinionated meditations on everything from the erotics of dislike to the psychology of a menu, from the perverse history of the peach to the brutalization of the British palate, from cheese as the corpse of mill to the binding action of blood. As Tarquin peels away the layers of his past, he proves himself a master of sly wit and subversive ideas. Only gradually, in-sidiously, do the outlines of a distinctly quirky aesthetic and a highly eccentric moral philosophy emerge, until the truth becomes unavoidable: This is not the voluptuary's memoir it purports to be, and Tarquin Winot is a master of something more than wit and opinion, something in-finitely, quiveringly, sinister.

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Ketersediaan

B017520

823 Lan d

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No. Panggil

823 Lan d

Penerbit

New York : Henry Holt and Company., 1996

Deskripsi Fisik

xv,; 251 hlm.; 19 cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8050-4388-8

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823

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Novel
English Literature
Novel Inggris

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