Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel (Unabridged) Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel (Unabridged)

Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK 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.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
MR
Miranda Raison
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:55
hr min
RELEASED
2022
April 5
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
735.6
MB

Customer Reviews

hhat2! ,

Compelling

The narrator is fantastic. I’d listen to her any day. The book was very good. I kept listening to find out what came next, but the book in its entirety wasn’t what I was expecting. I would read it again. I may recommend.

MJW6506 ,

A decent read

I enjoyed this book enormously.

Candc12 ,

Lesson in Chemistry

I can’t tell what exactly, but there was just something lacking in the plot and especially end.
It was an okay story, but I was anxious to finish it & move on.

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