By Adam Roberts
Fiction/Hutchinson Heinemann/Hardcover/320 pages/$34.95

Midway through the novel Food Person, protagonist Isabella Pasternack goes shopping. Her jaunt through this garden of earthly delights begins with a stop at a voguish fashion boutique, where she trades 10-year-old ratty jeans, a moth-bitten sweater and holey sneakers for a “positively diaphanous” silk maxi dress. 

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