Nick Tosches, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-89507-1
Beyond a handful of recordings revealing early jazz-era blackface minstrel Emmett Miller as "one of the strangest and most stunning stylists," some good press in the late 1920s and a few scattered recollections of a pleasant fellow who liked
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Nick Tosches, Author . Bloomsbury $15.95 (74p) ISBN 978-1-58234-227-6
In classic Tosches (Where Dead Voices Gather) fashion, the author offers an amazing recital of his around-the-world jaunt in search of the world's last opium den. His ostensible purpose is sound: a diabetic, he learns the drug was historically...
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Nick Tosches, Author . Little, Brown $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-316-89524-8
Deftly blending the sacred and the profane, Tosches boldly casts himself as the protagonist in his latest novel, an outrageously ambitious book in which he procures a purloined version of the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy
while tracing...
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Nick Tosches, Author . Ecco $25.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-06-621118-3
Readers who make it to the end of this unusual book may already have asked themselves the author's closing questions: "Why am I writing this, and why are you reading it?" Those cracking the binding in hopes of encountering a new...
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Nick Tosches, Author Da Capo Press $16.5 (304p) ISBN 978-0-306-80713-8
A historical look at the seedy underbelly of country music. (Nov.)
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Nick Tosches, Author Da Capo Press $24 (624p) ISBN 978-0-306-80969-9
Tosches is best known for his 100-proof biographies of Dean Martin and Jerry Lee Lewis, and his beautifully trenchant life of the prize-fighter Sonny Liston (see review above) will arrive to the timely accompaniment of this collection from his...
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Nick Tosches, Author Little Brown and Company $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-89775-4
Tosches has always been drawn to the lives of dark and mysteriously flawed or fallen public figures--Jerry Lee Lewis in Hellfire, Dean Martin in Dino--and in one-time heavyweight champ Charles ""Sonny"" Liston he has found his biggest and darkest...
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Nick Tosches, Author Harmony $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56870-5
Making his fiction debut, Tosches, a rock journalist (Hellfire), strikes gold with a brutal, corrosively funny portrait of New York's penny-ante hoods and professional lowlifes. Louie Brunellesches, a thuggish loan shark who can't even make a...
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Nick Tosches, Author Doubleday Books $24 (572p) ISBN 978-0-385-26216-3
An immigrant barber's son, high-school dropout Dino Crocetti--aka Dean Martin--left a job in an Ohio steel mill to achieve what no one before him had pulled off: simultaneous fame as a star of stage, movies, TV and records. But if this brilliant,...
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Nick Tosches, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (435p) ISBN 978-0-385-47003-2
If the prospect of Yoruba tribesmen employed as drug couriers and detonating all over the inside of airplane cabins seems intriguing, Tosches's (Cut Numbers and the biographies of Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin) new novel has just such a hook. That
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Nick Tosches, Author Back Bay Books $6.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-95689-9
Tosches's thriller has New York's Italian Mafia battling with Asian drug lords for control of the heroin trade. (Jan.)
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Nick Tosches. Little, Brown, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-12097-5
In this novel of sadomasochistic vampirism, an aging writer drinks blood to restore youth, vitality, and the urge to write. Nick is a misanthrope who sees people as “a source of tedium and acid reflux.” With young women, he enjoys rough sex, the...
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Nick Tosches. Little, Brown, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-40566-9
Novelist, poet, and Sonny Liston biographer Tosches blows the doors off the
historical novel with an unflinchingly blasphemous, mirthfully vulgar, and
ultimately brilliant story of Jesus. In
the secret libraries of the Vatican, Nick Tosches (who...
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