 Author Name: Lanchester, John
Title: The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
Book Condition: Good.
ISBN Number: 0805043888 / 9780805043884
Seller ID: 0620A925669
Hardcover. Stated 1st edition HARDCOVER with handsome dustjacket 1996 Henry Holt. Like new except nice new blank bookplate covers erased gift inscription on half-title page. Very clean; pages bright; binding tight; jacket crisp. 251pp. Language: English. 'In his elegant and cunning first novel, Lanchester, deputy editor of The London Review of Books, disguises a sinister tale of fraternal jealousy as an innocent cookbook. Many of his ingredients and methods are indelibly linked to memories of his childhood and early life. As the stories and characters appear and reappear, subtle and not-so-subtle shifts in narrator Tarquin Winot's remembrances point to something slighly more threatening than a literary gastronome's memoir. The evocative connection between food and the past, and the act of writing and the past, is notable more for what it conceals than what it unearths. Lanchester's writing is to be savored, and the observations of his buffoonishly high-brow narrator merit more than one reading. Very highly recommended.'--Adam Mazmanian, Library Journal, 1996.
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