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The Debt to Pleasure

: A Novel

Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food. Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of France, Tarquin Winot, the book's snobbish narrator, instructs

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“In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy.”

— John Lanchester, amazon.com

Tagged: Exiled From Our Memories, Banishment From A Fantasy World, Being Kicked Out Of Your Memories

“The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask for is infinite love — is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.”

— John Lanchester, amazon.com

Tagged: Looking To The Sky For Answers, Asking The Cosmos For Love, Infinite Love