Nick Tosches Livres

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.

Louie est un petit rang, qui entretient des rapports difficiles avec sa maîtresse. Sa seule lumière, c'est son grand-oncle Giovanni, une gloire locale de la mafia new-yorkaise, spécialisée dans les arnaques à la loterie. Giovanni a une nouvelle idée d'arnaque, un plan pour détourner plusieurs millions de dollars à la loterie d'État. L'ennui c'est que plus le gâteau est gros, plus les rats sont nombreux...

The narrative explores the tumultuous life of Jerry Lee, who navigates a legacy marked by both courage and chaos. His early rise to fame began at fourteen, culminating in the hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" at twenty-one. However, personal scandals, including his controversial marriage to his cousin, jeopardized his career. Despite numerous setbacks, Jerry Lee's relentless spirit leads him to reinvent himself as a country star, only to repeatedly confront his struggles with addiction and fame over the ensuing decades.

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

From dealing blackjack in the small-time gangster town of Steubenville, Ohio, to carousing with the famous "Rat Pack" in a Hollywood he called home, Dean Martin lived in a grandstand, guttering life of booze, broads, and big money. He rubbed shoulders with the mob, the Kennedys, and Hollywood's biggest stars. He was one of America's favorite entertainers. But no one really knew him. Now Nick Tosches reveals the man behind the image--the dark side of the American dream. It's a wild, illuminating, sometimes shocking tale of sex, ambition, heartaches--and a life lived hard, fast, and without apologies.

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.

At the heart of the narrative is a forgotten jazz singer whose story unfolds through a blend of mystery and biography. The book delves into the singer's life while exploring the profound impact and significance of music, inviting readers to reflect on its power and meaning throughout history.

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

This is the sprawling biography of Arnold Rothstein, a mythical New Yorker who was the inspiration for Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby and Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. Rothstein was also rumored to be the mastermind of the Black Sox scandal, the fixing of the 1919 World Series.