History of a pleasure seeker : a novel / Richard Mason.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 2012.Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: 305 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780307949288 (pbk.)
  • 0307949281 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6063.A7637 H57 2012c
Summary: This opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe's belle époque, is about a young man - Piet Barol - with an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier: a child who refuses to leave his family's mansion on Amsterdam's grandest canal. As the young man enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets - and soon finds his life transformed.
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This opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe's belle époque, is about a young man - Piet Barol - with an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europe's leading hotelier: a child who refuses to leave his family's mansion on Amsterdam's grandest canal. As the young man enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets - and soon finds his life transformed.

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