The Cookbook Collector

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• The Cookbook Collector, By Allegra Goodman

  After finding an earlier novel by Goodman, Intuition, a little too cold and dry, I wondered if this new book would warm things up. But in spite of the charismatic interplay between sister-opposites, CEO Emily and Save-the-Trees philosophy student Jes ... (read full critics)

  independent published on Sun, 6 May 2012

• The Cookbook Collector, By Allegra Goodman

  The Cookbook Collector, Allegra Goodman's sixth novel, recently caused something of a stir after one frustrated reviewer complained that gender bias had prevented it being considered a Great American Novel alongside Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. Superf ... (read full critics)

  independent published on Sun, 6 Mar 2011

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  Being a bit of a cookbook fanatic myself, and especially after reading a wonderful recent short story of Goodman's in the New Yorker, I couldn't skip this one. Story of sisters (think Jane Austen) and the people in their lives - their men, their family, their jobs - diametrically opposite - Emily is ... (continue)

  Being a bit of a cookbook fanatic myself, and especially after reading a wonderful recent short story of Goodman's in the New Yorker, I couldn't skip this one. Story of sisters (think Jane Austen) and the people in their lives - their men, their family, their jobs - diametrically opposite - Emily is driven, CEO of a dot com, and Jess is the permanent philosophy doctoral candidate, both living in silicon valley at the end of the dot com bubble. Funnily, reading this book was kind of like watching movies from the 80s where the clothes look wrong (how quickly we forget...) - the issues of the late 90s are so over - as we worry about keeping jobs, the environment. The love interest between Jess and the crochety (all of 39) George is the best part. A nice read but somehow more dated than the Austen it is based on...

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• English Books
• Hardcover 416 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0385340850
• ISBN-13: 9780385340854
• Publisher: The Dial Press
• Pub date: Jul 06, 2010
• Dimensions: 1490 mm x 1032 mm x 232 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書

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