Clark, Stephan Eirik,
Sweetness #9 : a novel / Sweetnes number nine Stephan Eirik Clark. - First edition. - 336 pages ; 25 cm
BookPage, August 01, 2014 Booklist, August 01, 2014 Kirkus Reviews, July 01, 2014 Library Journal, May 01, 2014
"It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a general dissatisfaction with life. 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 is generally dissatsified with her life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the human condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and an exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat makes us truly who we are"--
Adult. Brodart Adult. Brodart
0316278750 : $26.00
2014018060
Weight gain--Fiction.
Eating disorders--Fiction.
Sweeteners--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
PS3603.L36877 / S94 2014
813/.6
Sweetness #9 : a novel / Sweetnes number nine Stephan Eirik Clark. - First edition. - 336 pages ; 25 cm
BookPage, August 01, 2014 Booklist, August 01, 2014 Kirkus Reviews, July 01, 2014 Library Journal, May 01, 2014
"It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a general dissatisfaction with life. 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 is generally dissatsified with her life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the human condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and an exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat makes us truly who we are"--
Adult. Brodart Adult. Brodart
0316278750 : $26.00
2014018060
Weight gain--Fiction.
Eating disorders--Fiction.
Sweeteners--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Humorous fiction.
PS3603.L36877 / S94 2014
813/.6