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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 in 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.
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Review:
'Allegra Goodman's new novel has so many compelling ingrediants... An irresistable story... If you're hankering for a feast of love, let yourself fall under the spell of Allegra Goodman's delicious tale. You won't leave hungry.' New York Times Book Review 'Goodman makes us care so much about each character and his or her individual story - not what will happen but how it will affect these people we've come to know - that the pages cannot turn fast enough.' Los Angeles Times 'A skillfully crafted engaging novel about love and loyalty.' Wall Street Journal 'Allegra Goodman mixes up a lively stew of characters from the dotcom-era bubble: bold young software titans, Berkeley tree-huggers, bibliophiles and a pair of investment savvy rabbis. The plot may be IPO-centric, but the novel is old-fashioned and wildly romantic.' Time 'Wry, astute, and gratifying.' The New Yorker
From the Author:
Allegra Goodman is the author of six novels, including Kaaterskill Falls - a finalist for the US National Book Award. In the UK, her most recent novel Intuition was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize 2009. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- PublisherAtlantic Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 184887538X
- ISBN 13 9781848875388
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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