The Cookbook Collector
Author(s): Allegra Goodman
Two sisters, opposite in every way - twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CFO of an internet start-up, twenty-three-year-old Jess is a graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily's boyfriend is fantastically successful. Jess's boyfriend is an environmental activist. But the dot-com bubble must burst, while Jess's work on a cache of rare cookbooks uncovers strange erotic drawings and marginalia that bring her closer to their mysterious collector...
Rich ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel of substitutions reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world love that lasts.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books
- : Atlantic Books
- : 01 September 2010
- : 210mm X 148mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 416
- : UK, Export & Airside ed
- : Paperback
- : Allegra Goodman