Edinburgh: Canongate, 2008 12mo. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed); pp. [x (last blank)], 340, [2 (blank, last advt.)]. A fine copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. F.

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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: Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 031373
Title: Bone in the Throat
Author: Bourdain, Anthony
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - F
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 1847670547
ISBN 13: 9781847670540
Publisher: Canongate
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Date Published: 2008
Keywords: Anthony Bourdain Bone in the Throat Canongate Crime Thriller Chef Cooking Haute Cuisine

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