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ISBN: 9781478932581
| Runtime: | 11.48 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week, August 2014
An AudioFile Best Audiobook of the Year for 2014
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 suffers from a generalized dissatisfaction with life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition?
David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and a profound exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat truly makes us who we are.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Funny and moving. After this, nothing will ever taste the
same again.” —T. C. Boyle
“A truly gifted writer, Stephan Eirik Clark writes with an
inventiveness and artistry that few can match.” —Ben Fountain, New York Times bestselling author
“So smart, so funny, and totally entertaining. Nothing on
the dinner table escapes Stephan Clark’s incisive wit—and that’s only the
beginning.” —Bonnie Nadzam, author of Lamb
“All Hail Stephan Eirik Clark! He writes with terrific gusto,
insight, and compassion.” —Ken Kalfus, National Book Award finalist
“The energetic mixture of laughter and revulsion, outrage
and dismay, fact and fiction, skewer a food industry that provides neither food
nor sustenance and damages us in ways we are just beginning to fathom.” —Publishers Weekly
“This debut novel is a hilarious take down of an industry
more interested in getting us to buy its products than in selling us good food.
Essential for fans of Christopher Buckley’s Thank
You for Smoking.” —Library Journal
“Sweetness #9 does
for flavor science and its sweetly dangerous concoctions what White Noise did for chemical
transportation and airborne toxic events—that is, makes them real enough to
produce legitimate anxiety and funny enough to make you fall off the couch.” —Keith Lee Morris, author of The Dart League King
“A comic novel that brims with insight and imagination.
Stephan Eirik Clark casts a sharp eye on our addiction to simple solutions and
quick fixes.” —Laila Lalami, author of Secret Son
“Haunting and hilarious, Sweetness
#9 is so compelling that it made me throw the maraschino cherries in the
trash and run out to buy organic greens. That’s how sucked in I was by Stephan
Eirik Clark’s sly, bold version of our modern world, where nature and falseness
vie for supremacy and nothing can taste sweet enough, vivid enough, for
children intoxicated by the tang of chemicals. This book offers us something
amazing, with the startling ring of truth: the fact that not knowing where our
food comes from is inexorably linked to not knowing who we are.” —Stacey Richter, author of Twin Study
“Sweetness #9 is
funny but still human, entertaining but also illuminating, smart but not smug,
thought-provoking without lecturing: it’s a rare book that does all this at
once, and does it so well.” —Caitlin Horrocks, author of This Is Not Your City
“Sweetness #9 is
that rare thing: an intelligent page-turner. Read this book for its whip-smart
prose, its thoughtful characters, and its sharp observations about the
synthetic (and authentic) aspects of modern life.” —Karl Iagnemma, author of On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction
Author
Author Bio: Stephan Eirik Clark
Stephan Eirik Clark was born in West Germany and raised between England and the United States. He is the author of the short story collection Vladimir’s Mustache. A former Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine, he teaches English at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Literary |
| Runtime: | 11.48 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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