Nick Tosches Libros

Edition bilingue anglais-français. Un livre patchwork rempli du souffle de lieux défunts, de caniveaux qui traversent le paradis, de dieux hantés par la folie. Un recueil de poèmes suivi d'une nouvelle.

Born in Louisiana to a family legacy of great courage and greater madness, Jerry Lee Lewis was torn throughout his life between a harsh Pentecostal God and the Devil of alcohol, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. At twenty-one, he recorded Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, which propelled him to stardom. číst celé

Mafiaen i USA er døende, og det tvinger den legendariske Don di Pietro ud i en skånselsløs krig, hvor han spiller sine modstandere på heroinmarkedet ud mod hinanden

Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom that spreads poison through all the little Sunday-school ideas you've held dear." And Rolling Stone has said that "Tosches can write like a wild rockabilly raveup. He can be elegant as a slow blues." The Nick Tosches Reader is the author's own selection of his best work over the past thirty years, including fiction, poetry, interviews, rock writing, investigative journalism, and criticism. First published in major magazines, obscure underground periodicals, and his own best-selling books, many of these selections deal with rock 'n' roll and cultural icons—but there are also pieces on everything from William Faulkner to organized crime to heavyweight boxing, including the Vanity Fair feature that gave rise to Tosches's major new book on Sonny Liston, published by Little, Brown. Here is "a unique and darkly impressionistic cultural history" of the last three decades as only Nick Tosches could write it.

Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys; honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven; medieval myth and musical miscegenation; sex, drugs, murder; and rays of fierce illumination on Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others, famous and forgotten, whose demonology is America's own. Profusely and superbly illustrated, Country stands as one of the most brilliant explorations of American musical culture ever written.

Presenting the story of Sonny Liston, this biography also tells about boxing and the dark side of the American Dream. schovat popis

Nonfiction back stories of 1960's rock and roll music business pioneers- the labels, the artists and the promoters, told in the gritty style of Nick Tosches.

So begins Nick Tosches 's sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, which, in fact, is so much more: not only an elegy to old New York but an idiosyncratic history of the world as told in Nick Tosches's inimitable style. Known by many names -- A. R., Mr. Big, The Fixer, The Big Bankroll, The Man Uptown, and The Brain -- Rothstein seemed more myth than man. He was gambling, and he was money. The inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls , he was rumored to be the mastermind of the Black Sox scandal, the fixing of the 1919 World Series. He was Mr. Broadway and had his own booth at Lindy's Restaurant in Manhattan, where he held court. Now, in King of the Jews , Nick Tosches, "one of the greatest living American writers" ( Dallas Observer ), examines Rothstein's extraordinary legacy by placing him at the center of nothing less than the history of the entire Western world.

A raw and blazing novel by a "brain-searingly dangerous man of letters" (Anthony Bourdain). Nick, an aging New Yorker and writer, feels life slipping away in a world gone to hell. Disillusioned, he can’t even enjoy a glass of champagne until one night he meets a captivating young woman who comes to his apartment. Their encounter is extraordinarily transformative, awakening uncontrollable, primordial desires that lead him into a realm of forbidden ecstasy—both sexual and spiritual. Suddenly, Nick feels alive, strong, and liberated from earthly morality, indulging in pleasures that range from the exquisite taste of a perfect tomato to the sensual beauty of a woman's thigh. However, his quest to maintain this rapture spirals into a madness darker than he ever imagined. Writing in the tradition of literary greats like Dante and Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches emerges as America’s last true literary outlaw, unflinchingly exploring our deepest truths and desires, from the basest to the most beautiful. This outrageous and disturbing novel is a brilliant exploration of the human experience, challenging readers to confront their own perilous truths.

Deep inside the Vatican library, a priest discovers the rarest and most valuable art object ever found: the manuscript of "The Divine Comedy," written in Dante's own hand. Via Sicily, the manuscript makes its way from the priest to a mob boss in New York City, where a writer named Nick Tosches is called to authenticate the prize. For this writer, the temptation is too great: he steals the manuscript in a last-chance bid to have it all. Some will find it offensive; others will declare it transcendent; it is certain to be the most ragingly debated novel of the decade.