Gourmet Rhapsody
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781933372952 (1933372958)
ASIN: 1933372958
Publish date: 2009-08-25
Publisher: Europa Editions
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
France,
French Literature,
Fiction
After reading Barbery’s sensational “The Elegance of the Hedgehog”, I absolutely had to get my hands on a copy of “Gourmet Rhapsody”. Yet for the longest time, and much to my despair, the only copies I could find were in large bookstores and at a big price. Earlier this week while out with a friend ...
Do you know how hard it is to write an engaging book of a life, based on taste? Yet, Muriel Barbery does it extremely well in this short, tasty morsel of a book.This one expands on the life of the despicable food critic Monsieur Arthens who makes a brief but interesting entrance and exit in The Eleg...
I loved Elegance of the Hedgehog, primarily because Barbery created two characters who, although deeply flawed and often annoying, were so obviously vulnerable and sad that one (I) couldn't help but feel deeply for them. That story unfolded as carefully and precisely as an origami swan, revealing d...
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