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Lessons in Chemistry Hardback - 2022

by Bonnie Garmus

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This seller has earned a 4.28 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers were sharply divided. Admirers praised the zippy voice, offbeat humor, found?family warmth, and a defiant heroine who turns a 1960s cooking show into a vehicle for women’s self?worth—many singled out the dog, Six?Thirty, as a highlight. Detractors argued it reads like a 21st?century manifesto pasted onto the past, with cartoonish misogynists, anachronisms, and shaky science; they found the tone lurching between farce and trauma (including a graphic sexual assault), the religion thread reductive, and the prodigy child/dog POV cloying. Even some fans noted credibility strains, but many still found it entertaining and uplifting, while others found it didactic and alienating.

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#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD - Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. - STREAM ON APPLE TV+

This novel is "irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel" (The New York Times Book Review) and "witty, sometimes hilarious...the Catch-22 of early feminism" (Stephen King, via Twitter).

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with--of all things--her mind. True chemistry results.

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ("combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride") proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.

Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

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  • Title Lessons in Chemistry
  • Author Bonnie Garmus
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Doubleday Books
  • Publication date 2022-04-05
  • ISBN 9780385547345 / 038554734X
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.5 in (23.37 x 16.26 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex role, Single mothers
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2021008194
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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  • Booklist, 03/01/2022, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2022, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 11/01/2021, Page 15
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/28/2022, Page 0

About the author

BONNIE GARMUS is a copywriter and creative director who has worked for a wide range of clients, in the US and abroad, focusing primarily on technology, medicine, and education. From Seattle, she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog, 99.
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