Sweetbitter, Danler Stephanie

Автор: Danler, Stephanie
Название: Sweetbitter exp
ISBN: 0451493354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451493354
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1655.00 р.
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Описание: INSTANT 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. Perfect for readers of Kitchen Confidential and Blood, Bones and Butter.

Twenty-two, and knowing no one, Tess leaves home to begin her adult life in New York City. Thus begins a year that is both enchanting and punishing, in a low-level job at ';the best restaurant in New York City.' Grueling hours and a steep culinary learning curve awaken her to the beauty of oysters, the finest Champagnes, the appellations of Burgundy.

At the same time, she opens herself to friendshipsand loveset against the backdrop of dive bars and late nights. As her appetites sharpenfor food and wine, but also for knowledge, experience, and belongingTess is drawn into adarkly alluring love triangle that will prove to be her most exhilarating and painful lesson of all.

Stephanie Danler deftly conjures the nonstop and purely adrenalized world of the restaurantconversations interrupted, phrases overheard, and suggestions below the surface. Evoking the infinite possibility of being young in New York with heart-stopping accuracy, Sweetbitter is ultimately about the power of what remains after disillusionment, and the wisdom that comes from experience, sweet and bitter.

Автор: Danler Stephanie
Название: Sweetbitter
ISBN: 1101875941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101875940
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2299.00 р.
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Описание: "You will develop a palate.""A palate is a spot on your tongue where you remember. Where you assign words to the textures of taste.Eating becomes a discipline, language-obsessed. You will never simply eat food again.
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These are the words that introduce us to Tess, the twenty-two-year-old narrator of "Sweetbitter" and you will never again read a debut coming-of-age novel as stunning as this one.
Shot from a mundane, provincial past, Tess comes to New York in the stifling summer of 2006.Alone, knowing no one, living in a rented room in Williamsburg, she manages to land a job as a backwaiter at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. This begins the year we spend with Tess as she starts tonavigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing, and privileged life she has chosen, as well as the remorseless and luminous city around her. What follows is her education: in oysters, Champagne, theappellations of Burgundy, friendship, cocaine, lust, love, and dive bars. As her appetites awaken for food and wine, but also for knowledge, experience, and belonging we see her helplessly drawn into adarkly alluring love triangle. With an orphan s ardor shelatches onto Simone, a senior server at the restaurant who has lived in ways Tess only dreams of, and against the warnings of coworkers she falls under the spell of Jake, the elusive, tatted up, achingly beautiful bartender. These two and their enigmatic connection to each other will prove to be Tess s most exhilarating and painful lesson of all.
Stephanie Danler intimately defines the crucialtransition from girl to woman, from living in a place that feels like nowhere to living in a place that feels like the center of the universe. She deftly conjures the nonstop and purely adrenalized world of the restaurant conversations interrupted, phrases overheard, relationships only partially revealed. And she evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, the fragility and brutality of being young in New York with heart-stopping accuracy. A lush novel of the senses of taste and hunger, seeing and understanding, love and desire "Sweetbitter" is ultimately about the power of what remains after disillusionment, and the transformation and wisdom that come from our experiences, sweet and bitter."

Автор: Danler Stephanie
Название: Sweetbitter
ISBN: 1101911867 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781101911860
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Soon to be a series on Starz

"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.