Sweetbitter (Movie Tie-In Edition)

By Stephanie Danler

Book Overview

The bestselling novel about a young woman's coming-of-age, set against the glitzy, grimy backdrop of New York's most elite restaurants. Now A STARZ Original Series.

Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job as a backwaiter at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. What follows is the story of 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. As her appetites awaken--for food and wine, but also for knowledge, experience, and belonging--Tess finds herself helplessly drawn into a darkly alluring love triangle. In Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler deftly conjures with heart-stopping accuracy the nonstop and high-adrenaline world of the restaurant industry and evokes the infinite possibilities, the unbearable beauty, and the fragility and brutality of being young in New York.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525564829
• ISBN13: 9780525564829
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

This novel was interesting especially if you have a experience in the food service/ bar industry. A bit slow but nicely structured written

Just Okay

I only got through half of the book because it was a depressing read to me. It kept jumping around from character to character, which I would confusing and that made me not want to finish reading it.