History of a pleasure seeker
By: Richard Mason
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780297861058
Subjects: Social conditions; Young men; Tutors and tutoring; Ocean travel; Fiction
Description: It is 1907. The Belle Epoque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest mansions in Amsterdam. As tutor to the son of Europe's wealthiest hotelier, he learns the intimate secrets of a glittering family - and changes it forever. With nothing but his exquisite looks and wit to rely on, he is determined to make a fortune of his own. But in the heady exhilaration of this new world, amid delights and temptations he has only dreamed of, Piet discovers that some of the liaisons he has cultivated are dangerous indeed...