The Epicure's Lament

Hugo Whittier failed poet and former kept man is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic family s dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without forfeiting any of his pleasures. To his chagrin, the world that he has forsaken is not quite finished with him. First, his sanctimonious older brother moves in, closely followed by his estranged wife, their alleged daughter, and his gay uncle. Infuriated at the violation of his sanctum, Hugo devises hilariously perverse ploys to send the intruders packing. Yet the unexpected consequences of his schemes keep forcing him to reconsider, however fleetingly, the more wholesome ingredients of love, and life itself."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 01/25/2005
ISBN: 9780385720984
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.16w x 0.81d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 50