The Cookbook Collector (Signed First Edition )

Allegra Goodman

ISBN 10: 0385340850 / ISBN 13: 9780385340854

Published by Dial Press, New York, 2010

About this Item

New York: Dial [2010]. First Edition. First Printing. Hardbound. New, in dust jacket, very fine/very fine in all respects (but for very small smudge on side edge). A pristine unread copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket wrapper. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. You cannot find a better copy. 0.0.

Seller Inventory # 0810-339

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cookbook Collector (Signed First Edition )
• Publisher: Dial Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385340850
• ISBN 13: 9780385340854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Allegra Goodman’s novels include Intuition and Kaaterskill Falls. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories. She is a winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.AllegraGoodman.com or become a fan on Facebook.