{"product_id":"the-debt-to-pleasure-john-lanchester-9781035091386","title":"The Debt To Pleasure","description":"Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 1996.   To like something is to want to ingest it and, in that sense, is to submit to the world; to like something is to succumb, in a small but contentful way, to death.   Tarquin Winot – hedonist, food obsessive, ironist and snob – travels a circuitous route from the Hotel Splendide in Portsmouth to his cottage in Provence. Along the way he tells the story of his childhood and beyond through a series of delectable menus, organized by season. But this is no ordinary cookbook, and as we are drawn into Tarquin’s world, a far more sinister mission slowly reveals itself . . .   John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food; an erotic and sensual culinary journey. Its elegant, intelligent and unhinged narrator is nothing less than a work of art himself.   Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51305877930272,"sku":"9781035091386","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781035091386_2447035.jpg?v=1772766551","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-debt-to-pleasure-john-lanchester-9781035091386","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}