02166cam a2200349 i 4500 1713034036 TxAuBib 20190213120000.0 220318s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022012113 9780593490440 hardcover 0593490444 hardcover (OCoLC)1304834597 TxAuBib rda Boyd, S. E, author. The lemon : a novel / S. E. Boyd. [New York] : Viking, [2022] ©2022. 282 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe's chess-master of an agent Nia, ready to call in every favor she is owed to preserve his legacy; down-on-her-luck journalist Katie, who fabricates a story about Doe to save her job at a failing website; and world-famous chef Paolo Cabrini, Doe's closest friend and confidant, who finds himself entangled with a deranged Belfast hotel worker whose lurid secret might just take them all down. With raucous, deliciously cutting prose, crackling dialogue, and an unpredictable, tightly plotted story line-bolstered by the authors' insider knowledge of high-end restaurants and low-end digital media. The Lemon is a darkly hilarious and ultimately devastating interrogation of the underside of success and fame, and our ongoing complicity in devouring the cultural heroes we hardly deserve. Provided by publisher. 20190213. MBONEWBKS, MNBNEWBKS. Ireland Fiction. Belfast (Northern Ireland) Fiction. Novels. lcgft Cooking programs. tlcgt Travel programs. tlcgt Humorous fiction. fast