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Name: The Debt to Pleasure

Author: John Lanchester
Year: 1996
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Popularity: 2.5
Genres/categories: Mystery, Award winners
Culture: France

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ISBN:
9780330344548
9780333698655
9780736637244
9780771045875
9780805051308
9781574530254
0330344544
0333698657
0736637249
0771045875
0805051309
1574530259
Winner of the Betty Trask award in 1996.
Winner of the Whitbread award for First Novel in 1996.
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize in 1997.

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.
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