The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen

The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen

Hugo Whittier failed poet and former kept man is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family s dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without forfeiting any of his pleasures. To his chagrin, the world that he has forsaken is not quite finished with him. First, his sanctimonious older brother moves in, closely followed by his estranged wife, their alleged daughter, and his gay uncle. Infuriated at the violation of his sanctum, Hugo devises hilariously perverse ploys to send the intruders packing. Yet the unexpected consequences of his schemes keep forcing him to reconsider, however fleetingly, the more wholesome ingredients of love, and life itself.

Kate Christensen is the author of six previous books, including The Epicure's Lament and The Great Man, which won the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Prize for Fiction. She has written for a variety of magazines, including The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Cherry Bombe, Vogue, Food & Wine, The Wall Street Journal, and countless anthologies, about food, drink, life, and books. At katechristensen.net, she writes about cuisine and life in New England. Christensen splits his time between Portland, Maine, and New Hampshire's White Mountains.

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ISBN 13	9780385720984
ISBN 10	038572098X
Title	The Epicure's Lament
Author	Kate Christensen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	2005-01-25
Number of pages	368
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