Richard Mason

Broschiertes Buch

History of a Pleasure Seeker

Beschreibung

This opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe's belle epoque, 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.

Autor

Award-winning novelist RICHARD MASON was born in South Africa and raised in England. He wrote his first novel The Drowning People the year before he went to Oxford. With the proceeds from the book's success, he set up the Kay Mason Foundation, which helps disadvantaged children attend the best schools in Cape Town. In 2010 he broadened the KMF's scope by founding an eco-project in the country's Eastern Cape. The Lighted Rooms and History of a Pleasure Seeker are the first in a constellation of related novels. The next in the series will follow Piet Barol to South Africa's Wild Coast. Mason lives between New York, Cape Town and Glasgow, Scotland. www.richard-mason.org

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9780307949288
• ISBN-10: 0307949281
• Artikelnr.: 35420907

Rezensionen

Rich in period detail and with requisite glittering trappings, it's the sex that is most carefully observed in Mason's lusty romp Daily Mail