The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen

The Epicure's Lament

Kate Christensen

368 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary funny slow-paced
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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 dil...

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