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The cookbook collector : a novel / Allegra Goodman.
Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily's boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess's boyfriends, not so much - as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way. Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can't find what we're looking for: 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 stays.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385340854
- ISBN: 0385340850
- Physical Description: xii, 394 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Dial Press, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
Content descriptions
| General Note: | GF GOO |
| Citation/References Note: | Bklst 07/01/2010 LJ 03/15/2010 PW 03/08/2010 |
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| Genre: | Fiction. Novels. Domestic fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marshall Public Library | GF GOO (Text) | 33391000173594 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
