History of a Pleasure Seeker

History of a Pleasure Seeker

From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (â€œA literary sensationâ€ â€”The New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (â€œA magnum opusâ€ â€”The New Yorker), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europeâ€™s belle Ã©poque, written in the grand tradition with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original.
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The novel opens in Amsterdam at the turn of the last century. It moves to New York at the time of the 1907 financial crisis and proceeds onboard a luxury liner headed for Cape Town.
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It is about a young manâ€”Piet Barolâ€”with an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. Pietâ€™s father is an austere administrator at Hollandâ€™s oldest university. His mother, a singing teacher, has diedâ€”but not before giving him a thorough grounding in the arts of charm.
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Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europeâ€™s leading hotelier: a child who refuses to leave his familyâ€™s mansion on Amsterdamâ€™s grandest canal. As the young man enters this glittering world, he learns its secretsâ€”and soon, quietly, steadily, finds his life transformed as he in turn transforms the lives of those around him.
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History of a Pleasure Seeker is a brilliantly written portrait of the senses, a novel about pleasure and those who are in search of it; those who embrace it, luxuriate in it, need it; and those who deprive themselves of it as they do those they love. It is a book that will beguile and transport youâ€”to another world, another time, another state of being.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-02-07
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780307599476

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2012-02-07
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780307599476

History of a Pleasure Seeker

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