Sweetness #9: A Novel
Back Bay Books
ISBN13:
9780316278775
$27.33
Funny and moving. After this, nothing will ever taste the same again.--T. C. Boyle It's 1973, and David Leveraux has landed his dream job as a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists create the flavors for everything from the cherry in your can of soda to the butter on your popcorn. While testing a new artificial sweetener--"Sweetness #9"--he notices unusual side-effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a generalized dissatisfaction with life. David tries to blow the whistle, but he swallows it instead. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener--and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son has stopped using verbs, and his daughter suffers from a generalized dissatisfaction with life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and a profound exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat truly makes us who we are.
- | Author: Stephan Eirik Clark
- | Publisher: Back Bay Books
- | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 368 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0316278777
- | ISBN-13: 9780316278775
- Author:
- Stephan Eirik Clark
- Publisher:
- Back Bay Books
- Publication Date:
- Aug 01, 2015
- Number of pages:
- 368 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0316278777
- ISBN-13:
- 9780316278775