Name: The Debt to Pleasure
ISBN: 9780805051308

John Lanchester

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1996 A Voice Literary Supplement Best 25 of 1996 Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel Long-listed for the Booker Prize

A Novel

The Debt to Pleasure

An impeccable, epicurean Englishman and lifelong Francophile recounts his past pleasures in Provence, in a meditation on food, vodka, and restaurant-going that becomes a dark satire on hedonism, in a critically acclaimed novel by the former restaurant critic of the London Observer. Reprint.

Bryan Alexander

A poisonously delicious weird novel, seemingly a cross between cook book and autobiography. The food stuff is insanely good, with obsessive scholarship, over-the-top foodism, and lush meals. The character is a decadent aesthete, something like a Huysmans character read through Nabokov.

_Debt_ is also a crime story, as a string of lethal accidents are revealed and quietly explained.

Perhaps best read in small tastes, even single paragraphs at a time.

The Debt to Pleasure A Novel

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