The Debt to Pleasure
โ Scribed by Lanchester, John
- Book ID
- 109118747
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan UK
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781447275398
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Tarquin Winot, voluptuary and supercivilized ironist (and snob), sets out on a journey of the senses from the Hotel Splendide, Portsmouth, to his cottage in Provence, his spiritual home. With his head newly shaved and his well-thumbed copy of the Mossad Manual of Surveillance Techniques safely stowed, Tarquin elegantly introduces his life, itself a work of art, through the medium of seasonal menus.
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