Bibliograph

The cookbook collector, a novel, Allegra Goodman

Type

Label

The cookbook collector, a novel, Allegra Goodman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The cookbook collector

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

668211861

Responsibility statement

Allegra Goodman

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification