Sweetbitter - 9781101911860

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ò 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. 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 womanÆs coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New YorkÆs 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
• | Publisher: Vintage
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 356 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1101911867
• | ISBN-13: 9781101911860