History of a Pleasure Seeker

Title: History of a Pleasure Seeker
Author: Richard Mason
ISBN: 9780307949288
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 320
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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"Just try to resist.... A Continental Downton Abbey plus sex, with a dash of Dangerous Liaisons tossed in." --Seattle Times

Piet Barol has an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. When his mother dies, 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 one of Amsterdam's grandest canals. As Piet enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets and finds his life transformed.

A brilliantly written portrait of the senses, History of a Pleasure Seeker is an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe's Belle Époque, written with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original.