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The Dial Press
July 2010
On Sale: July 6, 2010
416 pages
ISBN: 0385340850
EAN: 9780385340854
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Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today,
National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling
author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds
of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work
yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley
and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about
appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way:
Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech,
twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and
graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a
fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an
antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while
Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily’s boyfriend, Jonathan,
is fantastically successful. Jess’s boyfriends, not so
much—as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a
completely disinterested way. Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The
Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending,
and about the substitutions we make when we can’t find what
we’re looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking,
speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of
living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real
in a virtual world: love that stays.
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