Syrup (novel)

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**Syrup**

First edition cover
Author	Max Barry
Country	Australian
Language	English
Genre(s)	Satirical novel
Publisher	Viking Press
Released	July 1999
Media Type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	320 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-670-88640-8 (first edition, hardback)
Followed by	Jennifer Government

Syrup is a satirical comedy of marketing and consumerism written by Max Barry. Published in 1999, it is Barry's debut novel.

1 Plot introduction
2 Characters in "Syrup"
3 Trivia
4 Release details
5 Sources, references, external links, quotations

[edit] Plot introduction

A young marketing graduate named Scat comes up with an idea for a new product for Coca-Cola called Fukk (the main innovation is the black can it comes in). This propels him into a world of backstabbing, ladder-climbing marketers including his former roommate Sneaky Pete and 6, a beautiful and intelligent executive at Coca-Cola and alleged lesbian that Scat falls in love with. It also sends him through repeated stretches of homelessness, constant insane demands, dire poverty, and even a brush with the Hollywood movie machine (including Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow and Winona Ryder).

[edit] Characters in "Syrup"

Scat
Sneaky Pete
6
Cindy
Tina
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[edit] Trivia

Syrup was not published in the United Kingdom, so Jennifer Government, Barry's second novel, is considered his debut novel there.
In 2006 Coca-Cola introduced a coffee-flavored soft drink called Coca-Cola BlāK. It was first released in France in a black can. Barry jokingly commented on the similarities of this and his fictional Coca-Cola Fukk from the novel.

[edit] Release details

1999, UK, Viking Press (ISBN 0-670-88640-8), Pub date ? July 1999, hardback (First edition)
2000, UK, Penguin Books (ISBN 0-14-029187-3), Pub date ? July 2000, paperback