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Only gradually, insidiously, 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 infinitely, quiveringly, sinister.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:12:58.126797 Boxid IA1104517 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donor

government were to default on its obligationswhether to creditors, contractors, or citizensthe economy would quickly shift. As Tarquin peels away the layers of his past, he proves himself a master of sly wit and subversive ideas. 16 hours ago &0183 &32 Analysis by CEA and outside researchers illustrates that if the U.S. This book title, The Debt to Pleasure (A Novel), ISBN: 9780312420369, by John Lanchester, published by Picador (December 7, 2001) is available in paperback. Many readers of mysteries devour books as if they were some kind of nourishment. The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel Paperback Decemby John Lanchester (Author) 331 ratings Hardcover 15.31 93 Used from 1.18 11 New from 11.00 23 Collectible from 5.00 Paperback 19.00 51 Used from 1.53 23 New from 12.32 Audio, Cassette Plastic Comb 5.54 15 Used from 1.59 4 Collectible from 27. 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 milk” to the binding action of blood. Debt To Pleasure : NPR Debt To Pleasure April 23, 199612:00 AM ET Audio will be available later today. ‘”This is not a conventional cookbook….” 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. Dust jacket has light edge and cover wear sticker ghost on front. The debt to pleasure John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the eyes of his contemporaries and in his own poetry and prose by John Adlard.

McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1996, 1 st Canadian Ed/1 st pr.