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Sweetbitter
Reader Score
75%
75% of readers
recommend this book
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: Apr 4th, 2017
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.10in - 0.90in - 0.60lb
- EAN: 9781101911860
- Categories: • Literary• Coming of Age• Urban & Street Lit
About the Author
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What people are saying
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4 of 5 stars to Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler https://t.co/itVAlJ2VnC
"No past, no future, but a deeply embodied present: That is the experience of the young server who narrates Danler’s novel, which captures the dizzying highs and lows of moving to and settling in New York City at 22. Oysters, obsessions and Pouilly-Fuissé."
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Praise for this book
"Brilliantly written. . . . Outstanding."--The New York Times Book Review
"Outstanding." --Gabrielle Hamilton, The New York Times Book Review
"Vivid and exquisite." --NPR
"[A] heady first taste of self-discovery, bitter and salty and sweet." --Entertainment Weekly
"Meticulously rendered." --Los Angeles Times
"Ravishing. . . . It tantalizes, seduces, satisfies." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"Smart, delicious. . . . A sexy, sweaty book of sensory overload." --The Washington Post
"[Sweetbitter] is going to make a lot of people hungry." .--The New York Times
"A heady mix of youth, love, gastronomic delights and determined self-invention. . . . [Danler] is a writer of prodigious talent." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A raw, shucked, pungent, wild love story." --Marie Claire
"Sexy, astute. . . . Anyone who's ever tied on an apron will think, 'Finally, someone wrote a book about us.' And nailed it." --People
"This dynamite book is filled with the heart-wrenching indignities of self-discovery, and gives a gritty, inside look to the fast-paced, drug-filled, whirlwind scene of restaurant life." --Bon Appétit
What people are saying
Early stage VC, True guy, dad, pilot
4 of 5 stars to Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler https://t.co/itVAlJ2VnC
"No past, no future, but a deeply embodied present: That is the experience of the young server who narrates Danler’s novel, which captures the dizzying highs and lows of moving to and settling in New York City at 22. Oysters, obsessions and Pouilly-Fuissé."