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Nicholson's charm lays in his descriptions, the amount of food in this book is staggering, most of it doesn't come close to anything I would be able to eat, a creature put together on a silver platter with a shark's head and octopus tentacles, claws and other weird parts is not your daily fare, yet it was something that The.

Nicholson does not stop at the Everlasting Club, with its gastronomic and erotic excesses, but paints a witty but grizzly picture of eating gone awry. This is a brilliantly witty attack on excess which no one who eats should miss. The Modern Novel Kinky food and sex games are the stuff of this high-energy black comedy. Nicholson sustains a tone of campy menace as he brings all these characters to London in a plot that zigs and zags entertainingly.

Frank runs the Golden Boy fast-food chain, his wife Mary is having an affair with the chef, and his son Virgil modeled for the Golden Boy logo when he was a baby. All three get embroiled in the machinations of an organization dedicated to feasting and Dionysian activities.

Kinky food and sex games are the stuff of this high-energy black comedy from the British Nicholson, his fifth novel but first US publication. Virgil Marcel is flying to London as a guest of the ancient and mysterious Everlasting Club. Virgil is the obnoxious, spoiled rotten son of Frank Marcel, founder of the Golden Boy chain, Howard Johnson-like restaurants in California; the only work he's done since college is to revamp his father's one fancy restaurant, now the last word in .

Geoff J. Nicholson (born 4 March 1953) is a British novelist and non-fiction writer. Geoff J. Nicholson was born in Hillsborough, Sheffield studied English at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and Modern European Drama at the University of Essex. He is generally regarded as a satirist in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh, his writing also being compared favorably with that of Kinsgley and Martin Amis, Jonathan Coe, Will Self and Zadie Smith.

Geoff Nicholson incarnates bits of William S. Burroughs, Tom Robbins, Franz Kafka and James Beard. In a story which is both bizarre and compelling, he describes the restaurant business in California and a mysterious exclusive club in London. There are no recipes contained in this book; no one would want any. But it is culinary from start to surpr This is a horrible book but it is horrible by design. In turns gross, blasphemous, repugnant, disgusting, it is also fascinating from beginning to end.

by. Nicholson, Geoff, 1953-. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books.

In Bedlam Burning, Geoff Nicholson takes deadly satiric aim at the ivy-covered walls of academia and the rubber rooms of insane asylums. When the debut novel of Gregory Collins is accepted by a publisher he seems set on a course for literary stardom

In Bedlam Burning, Geoff Nicholson takes deadly satiric aim at the ivy-covered walls of academia and the rubber rooms of insane asylums. When the debut novel of Gregory Collins is accepted by a publisher he seems set on a course for literary stardom. There's just one problem: he doesn't quite have the looks to match his talent, and his publisher wants a photo to put on the book jacket. He asks his handsome (but dim) college classmate, Mike Smith, to take his place. This is a brilliantly witty attack on excess which no-one who eats should miss.