![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The Debt to Pleasure is Nabokovian in its wrynessand delight with words ( New York Times) He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph, among others. Phillips, and Fragrant Harbor and a memoir, Family Romance. provides the pleasure that comes from good writing. John Lanchester is the author of the novels The Debt to Pleasure, Mr. Holt Language English Pages 251 Previews available in: English This edition doesn't have a description yet. Tarquin is a splendid creation, genuinely learned (the scholarship is dazzling), poisonously bigoted and wholly mad (John Banville Observer)Įntertaining, crafty and insouciantly macabre. by John Lanchester 2.50 2 Ratings 14 Want to read 1 Currently reading 3 Have read Overview View 8 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1996 Publisher H. ![]() a cunning commentary on art, appetite, jealousy and failure. Even the recipes are gorgeously seductive several pages of my copy are flecked with stains of ragu and ratatouille to mark the moments when I could stand temptation no more (John Walsh Independent)Ĭoruscatingly, horribly funny. The Debt to Pleasure is a major work, a supreme literary construct that's also deliriously entertaining. dazzling, languidly brilliant, his verbal flourishes are irresistible (James Walton Daily Telegraph)Ī fully achieved work of art. Reading between the lines to discover what Tarquin is up to is enormous, sinister fun. The chilling, deluded Tarquin is the best character to come out of an English novel since Charles Dickens put pen to paper ( Tatler) ![]()
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