08490cam a2200589 4500 265941616 TxAuBib 20160621120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101875957 110187595X B014NZJOF4 Amazon 82dbcfa8-2651-4ddf-bf21-6b685fbab4e7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 252465 2504974 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Danler, Stephanie. Sweetbitter [Bridges eBook] : A Novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 726kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 726kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Restaurant. New York. romance. Cooking. foodie. wine. love. HTML:NATIONAL BEST SELLER "Brilliantly written... Sweetbitter is the Kitchen Confidential of our time." —Gabrielle Hamilton, author of Blood, Bones & Butter, New York Times Book Review A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, seductive world of a famous New York City restaurant. "Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge..." This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning debut. Shot from a mundane, provincial past, Tess comes to New York in the stifling summer of 2006. Alone, knowing no one, living in a rented room in Williamsburg, she manages to land a job as a "backwaiter" at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. This begins the year we spend with Tess as she starts to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing, and privileged life she has chosen, as well as the remorseless and luminous city around her. What follows is her education: in oysters, Champagne, the appellations of Burgundy, friendship, cocaine, lust, love, and dive bars. As her appetites awaken—for food and wine, but also for knowledge, experience, and belonging—we see her helplessly drawn into a darkly alluring love triangle. With an orphan's ardor she latches onto Simone, a senior server at the restaurant who has lived in ways Tess only dreams of, and against the warnings of coworkers she falls under the spell of Jake, the elusive, tatted up, achingly beautiful bartender. These two and their enigmatic connection to each other will prove to be Tess's most exhilarating and painful lesson of all. Stephanie Danler intimately defines the crucial transition from girl to woman, from living in a place that feels like nowhere to living in a place that feels like the center of the universe. She deftly conjures the nonstop and purely adrenalized world of the restaurant—conversations interrupted, phrases overheard, relationships only partially revealed. And she evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, the fragility and brutality of being young in New York with heart-stopping accuracy. A lush novel of the senses—of taste and hunger, seeing and understanding, love and desire—Sweetbitter is ultimately about the power of what remains after disillusionment, and the transformation and wisdom that come from our experiences, sweet and bitter. From the Hardcover edition.. HTML:"Sweetbitter... dresses the bones of a classic coming-of-age story with the lusty flesh and blood of a bawdy early twenty-first-century picaresque... Danler... quickly draws you into the sparkling surfaces and the shadowy underbelly of the city... [Tess's] insatiable hunger for tactile, sensual satisfaction dares you to tag along. The journey is high-minded and dirty, beastly and bountiful.". HTML:Elle. HTML:Instant acclaim for Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter: "Brilliantly written... so engrossing to read, I missed a flight even though I had already checked in and was waiting at the gate. [Danler is an] excellent writer. Sweetbitter is the Kitchen Confidential of our time.". HTML:Gabrielle Hamilton, author of Blood, Bones & Butter and Prune, New York Times Book Review. "Stephanie Danler has written an excellent coming-of-age novel built around the down-and-dirty adventure of meeting the public in a service job. A mix of humor, realism, and occasional ghastliness, this well-told tale will keep you helplessly binge-reading to find out what happens next to its endangered heroine. An accomplishment!". HTML:Atticus Lish, author of Preparation For the Next Life. "... the rare much-hyped book that lives up to its billing: endearing yet unsentimental, smart and fun, a bildungsroman mercifully free of cliché. Lyrical, insightful, and funny... a total immersion in what it's like to be young and hungry. The reader is sure to gasp along with each new discovery until she has finished and is left wanting more.". HTML:Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe. "Danler writes about food with sensory gusto as Tess learns how to distinguish the fine points of every wine, how to identify an heirloom tomato or oyster, how to shave a truffle. Throughout, [she] evokes Tess's voice--intimate, confiding, wonderstruck, depressed--with deft skill. This novel is a treat, sure to find a big following.". HTML:Publishers Weekly (starred review.) "... Incandescent, with visceral and gorgeous descriptions of flavors, pitch-perfect overheard dialogue, deep knowledge of food, wine, and the restaurant business . . . Danler aims to mesmerize, to seduce, to fill you with sensual cravings. She also offers the rare impassioned defense of Britney Spears. As they say at the restaurant: pick up!". HTML:Kirkus (starred review.) HTML:"Stephanie Danler arrives on the literary scene with a fully-fledged, original voice that's wry, watchful and wise beyond its years--acutely attuned to the pleasures of the senses and to the desperate stratagems of self-invention among young urban seekers. Sweetbitter is a stunning debut novel, one that seems destined to help define a generation.". Jay McInerney. HTML:"Tess' sensual awakening to food: creamy, ash-dusted cheeses; anchovies drenched in olive oil; dense, fleshy figs like "a slap from another sun-soaked world" [is] the book's true romance--the heady first taste of self-discovery, bitter and salty and sweet.". Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly. "An unpretentious, truth-dealing novel... about hunger of every variety. Ms. Danler is a sensitive observer... and gifted commenter on many things. Sweetbitter is going to make a lot of people hungry.". HTML:Dwight Garner, New York Times. "Danler's sexy, astute debut is really a love story about the addictive pull of restaurant life... Anyone who's ever tied on an apron will think, "Finally, someone wrote a book about us." And nailed it.". HTML:People (book of the week.) "Danler deftly captures the unique power of hierarchy in the restaurant world, the role of drug and alcohol abuse, and the sense of borrowed grandeur that pervades the serving scene.". HTML:The New Yorker. "Gorgeous, sensual prose and a page-turning plot line that casts a spell down to the very last sentence of the final page...tantalizing in all the right ways". HTML:Refinery29. "...a raw, shucked, pungent, wild love story.". HTML:Marie Claire. Literature. Fiction. Romance. Media Type: eBook. 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