· Sourdough (Hardcover) Published September 5th by MCD Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Sourdough This book is about Lois Clary, a talented young programmer from Michigan who follows a job to California, only to be drawn into the weird world of food that waits there. It’s about work and eating, robots and microbes, independence and ambition. · Sourdough by Robin Sloan is perfect blend of culinary secrets and technological experiments. Lois is a programmer who spends her endless days writing code and programming a robot arm. She resorts to drinking a Slurry (an unappealing nutritional concoction) for lunch during the day, and ordering delivery of spicy soup with delicious bread from a neighborhood hole in the wall at night/5.
Sourdough. This book is about Lois Clary, a talented young programmer from Michigan who follows a job to California, only to be drawn into the weird world of food that waits there. It's about work and eating, robots and microbes, independence and ambition, I believe it is the first novel in English to feature, as a key supporting character, a. Robin Sloan is an American author. His debut novel, Mr. Penumbra's Hour Bookstore, was published in Early life. Sloan was born to a home economics teacher His second novel Sourdough was released in September It was listed as one of the San Francisco Chronicle's top books of "Robin Sloan's delightful new novel, Sourdough displays both lightness and a yearning for escape, but only in the best sense."--Jeff Vandermeer, author of Borne, in LA Times "Sourdough rises like a good loaf Beautiful Fight Club meets The Great British Bake Off[Sourdough] knows as much about the strange extremes of food as Mr. Penumbra did about the dark latitudes of the.
Sourdough is a soup of skilfully balanced ingredients: there’s satire, a touch of fantasy, a pinch of SF, all bound up with a likeable narrator whose zest for life is infectious. The novel opens. Sourdough by Robin Sloan is perfect blend of culinary secrets and technological experiments. Lois is a programmer who spends her endless days writing code and programming a robot arm. She resorts to drinking a Slurry (an unappealing nutritional concoction) for lunch during the day, and ordering delivery of spicy soup with delicious bread from a neighborhood hole in the wall at night. From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker.
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