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Synopsis
Focuses on the unappealing Marcel family - father Frank who wins the Golden Boy fast-food chain, his wife Mary who is having an affair with chef Leo, and his son Virgil. All three get embroiled in the machinations of the Everlasting Club, an organization dedicated to feasting.
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An original and dark novel set in the Dionysian world of London¿s dining clubs.
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Virgil Marcel is the golden boy of L.A. cuisine - an all-American Wolfgang Puck with rock-star good looks, a restauranteur's restauranteur and owner of Trimalchio's, the trendiest restaurant in a city of trendy restaurants. A magnet for the beautiful and the powerful, Trimalchio's is the hottest ticket in town - Morton's, Le Dome and Spago all exist to absorb the hapless players who can't get a table at Trimalchio's. Out of the blue, he receives an invitation to join London's secretive Everlasting Club, where a party has been going non-stop for some 350 years and whose membership has included the Marquis de Sade, American presidents and European royalty. It's unclear what fuels the club's Dionysian revelry, but the members are ominously insistent that Virgil join. When he declines, he is "kidnapped" and taken on a sensualist's tour of Britain. But is this just part of the initiation, or is he being prepared for a more primitive and sinister ritual?
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The Food Chain
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Hodder & Stoughton, United Kingdom, 1992
ISBN 10: 0340553723
ISBN 13: 9780340553725
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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Virgil Marcel, the Golden Boy of L.A. cuisine, is unexpectedly invited to London as a guest of the mysterious Everlasting Club. But he soon suspects there is more on the menu than the simple pleasures of gastronomy. 183 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Seller Inventory # 040115
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