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Sweetness #9 : a novel / Stephan Eirik Clark.
- Title
- Sweetness #9 : a novel / Stephan Eirik Clark.
- Author
- Clark, Stephan Eirik.
- Publication
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Request in advance | PS3603.L36877 S94 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 336 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Alternative Title
- Sweetnes number nine
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1. Animal testing (Summer 1973) -- Part 2. Just filling orders (July 1998) -- Part 3. Black Cherry Monday (August-September 1998) -- Part 4. A single packet of sweetness #9 (September 1998) -- Part 5. Seven days in November (November 1998) -- Part 6. Small-batch organic sauerkraut (1998-2012).
- ISBN
- 9780316278751 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2014018060
- OCLC
- 880831215
- SCSB-12046244
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library