Title
Sweetness #9 : a novel
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Description
It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys: anxiety, obesity, mutism, and a general dissatisfaction with life. Years later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetener--and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his son has stopped using verbs, and his daughter is generally dissatsified with her life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the human condition? David's search for an answer unfolds in this expansive novel that is at once a comic satire, a family story, and an exploration of our deepest cultural anxieties. Wickedly funny and wildly imaginative, Sweetness #9 questions whether what we eat makes us truly who we are
ISBN
9780316278751
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
City
New York
Disciplines
Fiction
Recommended Citation
Clark, Stephan Eirik, "Sweetness #9 : a novel" (2014). Faculty Bookshelf. 11.
https://idun.augsburg.edu/monographs/11