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Sweetbitter
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Overview
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A thrilling novel of the senses and a coming-of-age tale, following a small-town girl into the electrifying world of New York City and the education of a lifetime at one of the most exclusive restaurants in Manhattan.
Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. What follows is her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing life she has chosen. The story of a young woman's coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York's most elite restaurants, in Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler deftly conjures the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the food industry and evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, and the fragility and brutality of being young and adrift.Details
- ISBN-13: 9781101911860
- ISBN-10: 1101911867
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: April 2017
- Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 368
