{"product_id":"the-nick-tosches-reader-9780306809699","title":"The Nick Tosches Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewsday  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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew York Times Book Review, 7\/15\/10 \"If you want to learn about the power and dangers of rock 'n' roll, check out Mary Gaitskill's incomparable novel Veronica or Marianne Faithfull's cackling memoir or The Nick Tosches Reader.\"","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767290626391,"sku":"9780306809699","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780306809699.jpg?v=1758712812","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nick-tosches-reader-9780306809699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}