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This astonishing first novel is narrated by the impeccably correct Tarquin Winot, who relates the story of his life through the 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 as he peels away the layers of his past. Wickedly funny and poisonously opinionated, he proves himself a master of sly wit and subversive ideas. Gradually the outlines of a distinctly quirky aesthetic and a highly eccentric moral universe emerge, and the truth becomes unavoidable. This is not the voluptuary’s memoir it purports to be, and Tarquin Winot is ultimately the master of something infinitely, quiveringly sinister.
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“A remarkable achievement.”
–Montreal Gazette
“A fully achieved work of art...Lanchester writes so stunningly well that one finds oneself laughing out loud at the perfection of his effects...a triumph.”
–Independent (U.K.)
“Dazzling....This beautifully written, boldly self-indulgent book manages to instruct and amuse even as it appalls.”
–Globe and Mail
“Diabolically clever.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Coruscatingly, horribly funny...Lanchester writes with beady-eyed exactitude and a fine aphoristic wit...Tarquin is a splendid creation.”
–The Observer (U.K.)
“A masterly debut from a writer whose gifts border on the demonic.”
–Chicago Tribune
“As if Brillat-Savarin and Nabokov met for lunch at a quiet dining room off the Rue Morgue. Entertaining and unexpected.”
–Richard Bachmann, A Different Drummer Books
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–Montreal Gazette
“A fully achieved work of art...Lanchester writes so stunningly well that one finds oneself laughing out loud at the perfection of his effects...a triumph.”
–Independent (U.K.)
“Dazzling....This beautifully written, boldly self-indulgent book manages to instruct and amuse even as it appalls.”
–Globe and Mail
“Diabolically clever.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Coruscatingly, horribly funny...Lanchester writes with beady-eyed exactitude and a fine aphoristic wit...Tarquin is a splendid creation.”
–The Observer (U.K.)
“A masterly debut from a writer whose gifts border on the demonic.”
–Chicago Tribune
“As if Brillat-Savarin and Nabokov met for lunch at a quiet dining room off the Rue Morgue. Entertaining and unexpected.”
–Richard Bachmann, A Different Drummer Books
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He was brought up in the Far East and educated in England. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and is on the editorial board of the London Review of Books. The Debt to Pleasure (1996), won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, and a Julia Child Award. His second novel, Mr. Phillips, was published in 2000. His most recent novel is Fragrant Harbour. He lives in London.
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- EditoreMcClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione1996
- ISBN 10 0771045859
- ISBN 13 9780771045851
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 20 x 14 cm -" A gorgeous, dark, and sensuous book that is part cookbook, part novel, part eccentric philosophical treatise, reminiscent of perhaps the greatest of all books on food, Jean-Anthelme Brillat Savarin's The Physiology of Taste. Join Tarquin Winot as he 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 palate, from cheese as "the corpse of milk" to the binding action of blood.". Codice articolo 019395
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Canadian Edition. Draws the reader, through descriptions of food and cooking, into a world of murder and art. Narrated by Tarquin, an ironist, epicurean and a snob, this novel is constructed around a series of seasonal menus, which unfold his autobiography. Book. Codice articolo 37746
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