Publisher's Weekly Picks 'The Last Banquet' as One of the Best Books of the Week
For the week of Sept. 30th, Publisher's Weekly has chosen Jonathan Grimwood's The Last Banquet as one of the best books this week! The Last Banquet joins titles like Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things and Jeffrey Deaver's The October List as PW's must-reads. Here is what the website has to say about The Last Banquet:
With his parents dead, young Jean-Marie d’Aumont is found eating beetles on a dung heap and sent to a school for the “sons of destitute nobles” in Enlightenment-era France. He likes school fine, but he didn’t mind the beetles either (brown are sour, black tasty), and as far as he’s concerned, the most notable part of his rescue is the piece of Roquefort cheese he’s given. Along with the beetles, the Roquefort sets d’Aumont on the way to a career as gastronome, sensualist, and taster, a man who can determine what a woman’s eaten recently by rolling a drop of her breast milk on his tongue.
With The Last Banquet officially hitting bookstores today, PW's endorsement couldn't come at a better time! The novel received a starred review from the website back in August and has been steadily garnering praise from other media outlets. Read more about The Last Banquet here, and pick up your copy today!
With his parents dead, young Jean-Marie d’Aumont is found eating beetles on a dung heap and sent to a school for the “sons of destitute nobles” in Enlightenment-era France. He likes school fine, but he didn’t mind the beetles either (brown are sour, black tasty), and as far as he’s concerned, the most notable part of his rescue is the piece of Roquefort cheese he’s given. Along with the beetles, the Roquefort sets d’Aumont on the way to a career as gastronome, sensualist, and taster, a man who can determine what a woman’s eaten recently by rolling a drop of her breast milk on his tongue.
With The Last Banquet officially hitting bookstores today, PW's endorsement couldn't come at a better time! The novel received a starred review from the website back in August and has been steadily garnering praise from other media outlets. Read more about The Last Banquet here, and pick up your copy today!