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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
February 7, 2012
Pages
277
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307599476
ISBN-10
0307599477
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.75 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$25.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Celine: A novel | The Price of Illusion: A Memoir | Prussian Blue (A Bernie Gunther Novel) | The Idiot | Earthly Remains: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery | Who Killed Piet Barol? | Any Human Heart | Flaneuse
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (âA literary sensationâ âThe New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (âA magnum opusâ âThe New Yorker), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europeâs belle époque, written in the grand tradition with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original.
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The novel opens in Amsterdam at the turn of the last century. It moves to New York at the time of the 1907 financial crisis and proceeds onboard a luxury liner headed for Cape Town.
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It is about a young manâPiet Barolâwith an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. Pietâs father is an austere administrator at Hollandâs oldest university. His mother, a singing teacher, has diedâbut not before giving him a thorough grounding in the arts of charm.
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Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europeâs leading hotelier: a child who refuses to leave his familyâs mansion on Amsterdamâs grandest canal. As the young man enters this glittering world, he learns its secretsâand soon, quietly, steadily, finds his life transformed as he in turn transforms the lives of those around him.
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History of a Pleasure Seeker is a brilliantly written portrait of the senses, a novel about pleasure and those who are in search of it; those who embrace it, luxuriate in it, need it; and those who deprive themselves of it as they do those they love. It is a book that will beguile and transport youâto another world, another time, another state of being.
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The novel opens in Amsterdam at the turn of the last century. It moves to New York at the time of the 1907 financial crisis and proceeds onboard a luxury liner headed for Cape Town.
Â
It is about a young manâPiet Barolâwith an instinctive appreciation for pleasure and a gift for finding it. Pietâs father is an austere administrator at Hollandâs oldest university. His mother, a singing teacher, has diedâbut not before giving him a thorough grounding in the arts of charm.
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Piet applies for a job as tutor to the troubled son of Europeâs leading hotelier: a child who refuses to leave his familyâs mansion on Amsterdamâs grandest canal. As the young man enters this glittering world, he learns its secretsâand soon, quietly, steadily, finds his life transformed as he in turn transforms the lives of those around him.
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History of a Pleasure Seeker is a brilliantly written portrait of the senses, a novel about pleasure and those who are in search of it; those who embrace it, luxuriate in it, need it; and those who deprive themselves of it as they do those they love. It is a book that will beguile and transport youâto another world, another time, another state of being.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (June 22, 2012); titled "The History of a Pleasure Seeker"
9781410448576 | details & prices | 425 pages | 5.75 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $30.99
About: 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.
About: 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.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Alfred a Knopf Inc (February 7, 2012); titled "History of a Pleasure Seeker"
9780307599476 | details & prices | 277 pages | 5.75 × 9.75 × 1.25 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $25.95
About: From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (âA literary sensationâ âThe New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (âA magnum opusâ âThe New Yorker), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europeâs belle époque, written in the grand tradition with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original.
About: From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (âA literary sensationâ âThe New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (âA magnum opusâ âThe New Yorker), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europeâs belle époque, written in the grand tradition with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original.
from Orion Pub Co (May 12, 2011); titled "History of a Pleasure Seeker"
9780297861058 | details & prices | 283 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $21.85
About: 'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men.
About: 'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (November 13, 2012); titled "History of a Pleasure Seeker"
9780307949288 | details & prices | 305 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.95
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