**It's a recipe for disaster when bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook....** Brooklyn's sister Savannah and her former culinary school classmates all became successful chefs, especially Savannah's ex-boyfriend Baxter Cromwell, who went on to culinary supersta
The cookbook collector: a novel
โ Scribed by Allegra Goodman
- Publisher
- The Dial Press;Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York;California;Cambridge (Mass.);Massachusetts;Cambridge
- ISBN
- 0679603816
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โฆ Synopsis
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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.
National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays.
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โฆ Subjects
Adult
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