| Author: | Stephanie Danler | ISBN: | 9781101875957 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | May 24, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Stephanie Danler |
| ISBN: | 9781101875957 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | May 24, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Soon to be a series on Starz**
"Brilliantly written. . . . Outstanding."—The New York Times Book Review
Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. What follows is her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing life she has chosen. The story of a young woman’s coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York’s most elite restaurants, in Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler deftly conjures the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the food industry and evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, and the fragility and brutality of being young and adrift.
**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Soon to be a series on Starz**
"Brilliantly written. . . . Outstanding."—The New York Times Book Review
Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. What follows is her education: in champagne and cocaine, love and lust, dive bars and fine dining rooms, as she learns to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing life she has chosen. The story of a young woman’s coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York’s most elite restaurants, in Sweetbitter Stephanie Danler deftly conjures the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the food industry and evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, and the fragility and brutality of being young and adrift.
