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Sweetness #9Stephan Eirik Clark

Sweetness #9

Stephan Eirik Clark
2014168 pages
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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: 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 dissatisfied with her life. Is Sweetness #9 to blame, along with David's failure to stop…

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5 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2014
    Hachette Audio and Blackstone Audio · 1 pages · 9781478932581
  • Audiobook · English · 2014
    Blackstone Audio Inc · 9781478932574
  • Other · English · 2014
    Little, Brown and Company · 336 pages · 9780316278751
  • Other · English · 2014
    Little Brown & Company · 9780316278768
  • Other · English · 2014
    Little Brown & Company · 9781322064314
Weight gainFictionFamiliesSweetenersEating disordersFiction, humorousFiction, family lifeNew jersey, fiction