History of a Pleasure Seeker
A Novel
New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
Format: Book
Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
Description: 305 pages ; 21 cm
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. 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 Amsterdam's grandest canal. As the young man enters this glittering world, he learns its secrets - and soon finds his life transformed.
Subjects:
Tutors and tutoring -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Fiction.
Young men -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Fiction.
Ocean travel -- Fiction.
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Tutors and tutoring -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Fiction.
Young men -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Fiction.
Ocean travel -- Fiction.
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780307949288 (pbk.)