Nick Tosches était un journaliste, romancier, biographe et poète américain dont l'œuvre offrait une exploration profonde de la culture et de l'histoire américaines. Sa prose se penchait souvent sur les aspects les plus sombres de la vie avec une énergie et un style remarquables. L'approche de Tosches envers le rock and roll et ses icônes a été révolutionnaire, influençant la façon dont nous les comprenons aujourd'hui. C'était un maître conteur, capable d'immerger les lecteurs dans ses récits comme dans ses essais.
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.
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.
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.
In La mano di Dante si intrecciano due piani temporali, due registi stilistici, due "mondi" completamente diversi. Da una parte abbiamo una storia molto "noir" in cui uno scrittore abbastanza male in arnese e di scarsa moralità di nome Nick Tosches, appassionato lettore e cultore di Dante, viene assoldato da un potente boss mafioso che con l'aiuto di un gruppo di gangster e killer, è entrato in possesso di un manoscritto che potrebbe essere l'originale della Divina Commedia. L'altra storia che continuamente si interseca con la precedente ha per protagonista Dante Alighieri che non riesce a procedere nella stesura della Commedia.
Nato in Ohio, Dino Crocetti ha preferito una strada tortuosa: da benzinaio a pugile a operaio in un'acciaieria e poi esattore per una banda locale. Tutto questo prima di incontrare il suo grande amore: la canzone, che gli diede la popolarità. I lati oscuri della voce di "That's amore" sono raccontati in una ricostruzione scritta da un celebre autore di biografie di divi dello spettacolo: Nick Toshes. Dai giorni migliori e più fortunati della sua carriera tra Hollywood e Las Vegas al tramonto malinconico nell'alcol e nell'oblio, la vita di Dean Martin è concentrata in queste pagine scritte con maestria.
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.
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...
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
