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Bone in the Throat
by Anthony Bourdain
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679435522
- ISBN 13
- 9780679435525
- Seller
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About This Item
Hardcover with minimal wear but foxing to the endpapers and the outside edges of the page-block.
Dust jacket in VG condition, with only the slightest wear.
Binding firm. No writing or marking to the pages.
States "First Edition" with a number row 98765432.
Synopsis
All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill...the chef has a smack habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and in the midst of this, the sous-chef Tommy is just trying to do his job. As depraved as it is hilarious, Anthony Bourdain's first novel is street smart and spiced with drugged-up savvy, foul-mouthed feds and salty mob speak. With a cast of unforgettables like the hitman who covers himself in clingfilm to avoid leaving fingerprints and a plot with more twists than a plate of spaghetti, Bone in the Throat rocks through the streets of Manhattan at a blistering pace. The story revolves around a young ambitious chef who takes a job in his cousin’s restaurant in Little Italy and unwittingly gets caught in the midst of mob-antics and the FBI. The novel is gritty- offering an authentic look in the kitchens of NYC chefs, albeit laced with mafia violence. The New York Times Book Review calls Bone in the Throat "A prodigiously self-assured first novel. . . the author's comic vision goes beyond original. It is deliciously depraved." Publishers Weekly praised “the kitchen antics reveal a real love for-and knowledge of-cooking, including a mouth-watering recipe for Portuguese Seafood Chowder, complete with squid, lobster, swordfish and cherrystone clams.”-
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- Bookseller
- Summer’s Day Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1
- Title
- Bone in the Throat
- Author
- Anthony Bourdain
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679435522
- ISBN 13
- 9780679435525
- Publisher
- Villard
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- 290
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