{"product_id":"the-last-banquet-paperback","title":"The Last Banquet - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Grimwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of the Enlightenment, the delectable decadence of Versailles, and the French Revolution, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Banquet\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate epic that tells the story of one man's quest to know the world through its many and marvelous flavors. Jean-Marie d'Aumout will try anything once, with consequences that are at times mouthwatering and at others fascinatingly macabre (Three Snake Bouillabaisse anyone? Or perhaps some pickled Wolf's Heart?). When he is not obsessively searching for a new taste d'Aumout is a fast friend, a loving husband, a doting father, and an imaginative lover. He befriends Ben Franklin, corresponds with the Marquis de Sade and Voltaire, becomes a favorite at Versailles, thwarts a peasant uprising, improves upon traditional French methods of contraception, plays an instrumental role in the Corsican War of Independence, and constructs France's finest menagerie. But d'Aumout's every adventurous turn is decided by his at times dark obsession to know all the world's flavors before that world changes irreversibly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs gripping as Patrick Suskind's \u003ci\u003ePerfume\u003c\/i\u003e, as gloriously ambitious as Daniel Kehlman's \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and as prize-worthy as Andrew Miller's Pure, The Last Banquet is a hugely appealing novel about food and flavor, about the Age of Reason and the ages of man, and our obsessions and about how, if we manage to survive them, they can bequeath us wisdom and consolation in old age.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Grimwood was born in Malta and grew up in the Far East, Britain and Scandinavia. He has written for many newspapers and magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Independent. \u003c\/i\u003eWriting under the name Jon Courtenay Grimwood, he has won the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel twice, and his work has been published in over fifteen languages. He divides his time between London and Winchester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247618670841,"sku":"9781609452315","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SDVFejZzVDlhVmRWL2NDbkNjaktwUT09.webp?v=1768626851","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-last-banquet-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}