Sweetness #9: A Novel

Paperback Published on: 27/08/2015
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Synopsis

David Leveraux is an Apprentice Flavour Chemist at one of the world's leading production houses. While testing Sweetness #9, he notices that the artificial sweetener causes unsettling side-effects in laboratory rats and monkeys. But with his career amd family at risk, David keeps his suspicions to himself.

Year later, Sweetness #9 is America's most popular sweetner - and David's family is changing. His wife is gaining weight, his daughter is depressed, and his son has stopped using verbs. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop it? Or are these just symptoms of the American condition?

An exciting literary debut, SWEETNESS #9 is a darkly comic, wildly imaginative investigation of whether what we eat makes us who we are.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN: 9780316278775
  • Number of pages: 368
  • Dimensions: 209 x 143 x 27 mm
  • Weight: 368g
  • Languages: English

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