Sweetness #9
  • Published:
    Aug-2014 (Hardcover)
    Aug-2015 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    20th Century
  • Pages:
    368
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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: 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 dissatisfied 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.
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Aug-2015
    • Back Bay
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0316278777
    • ISBN13: 9780316278775
    • First Edition
    • Aug-2014
    • Little, Brown
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0316278750
    • ISBN13: 9780316278751
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Little, Brown
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Little, Brown & Company
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0316278769
    • ISBN13: 9780316278768
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Little, Brown
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1478956046
    • ISBN13: 9781478956044
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1478932570
    • ISBN13: 9781478932574
    •  
    • Aug-2014
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1478932589
    • ISBN13: 9781478932581



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