Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Book Author: NDiaye, Marie, author. Title: The cheffe : a cook's novel / Marie NDiaye ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump. Edition: First American edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. Description: 287 pages ; 22 cm Summary: "[This book tells] the story of a Great Female Chef--a chef who was celebrated as one of the best in a world where men dominate, and the way that her pursuit of love, pleasure, and gustatory delights helped shape her life and career. Told from the perspective of her former assistant (and unrequited lover), now an aged chef himself, here is the story of a woman's quest to the front of the kitchen--and the extraordinary journey she takes along the way"--Publisher marketing. Subjects: Women cooks -- France -- Fiction. Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. Unplanned pregnancy -- Fiction. Ambition -- Fiction. Restaurants -- France -- Fiction. France -- Fiction. Other Author: Stump, Jordan, 1959- translator. Other Title: Cheffe, roman d'une cuisinière. English Notes: "Originally published in France as La cheffe, roman d'une cusinière by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2016"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references. In English, translated from the French. LCCN: 2019001941 ISBN: 9780525520474 Other Number: 1080274331 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 815541 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: FICTION NDiaye Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
