Description |
282 pages ; 24 cm |
Summary |
"While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe's chess-master of an agent Nia, ready to call in every favor she is owed to preserve his legacy; down-on-her-luck journalist Katie, who fabricates a story about Doe to save her job at a failing website; and world-famous chef Paolo Cabrini, Doe's closest friend and confidant, who finds himself entangled with a deranged Belfast hotel worker whose lurid secret might just take them all down. With raucous, deliciously cutting prose, crackling dialogue, and an unpredictable, tightly plotted story line-bolstered by the authors' insider knowledge of high-end restaurants and low-end digital media. The Lemon is a darkly hilarious and ultimately devastating interrogation of the underside of success and fame, and our ongoing complicity in devouring the cultural heroes we hardly deserve"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Television cooking shows -- Fiction.
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Travelogues (Television programs) -- Fiction.
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Belfast (Northern Ireland) -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726649
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Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Humorous fiction.
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Novels.
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ISBN |
9780593490440 (hardcover) |
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0593490444 (hardcover) |
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