Sweetbitter

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. – “Brilliantly written…. Outstanding.” —The New York Times Book Review

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.

Author: Stephanie Danler
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/04/2017
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781101911860
Language: English