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Cocaine
ISBN: 9781579512187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cocaine is the story of a young man who runs off to Paris to seek fame, fortune, and fun. Pitigrilli's classic novel charts the comedy and pathos of a young man's tragic trajectory. Tito Arnaudi is a dandified hero with several mistresses he juggles. A failed medical student, Tito is hired as a journalist in Paris, where he investigates cocaine dens and invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths that he sells to newspapers as his own life becomes more outrageous than his phony press reports. Telling of orgies and strawberries soaked in champagne and ether, Tito lives with intensity...
Cocaine is the story of a young man who runs off to Paris to seek fame, fortune, and fun. Pitigrilli's classic novel charts the comedy and path...
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Cocaine
ISBN: 9781939931092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Named Library Journal Best Fiction in Translation 2013. "Cocaine is a brilliant black comedy that belongs on the same shelf as Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies and Dawn Powell's The Wicked Pavilion. Pitigrilli is an acidic aphorist and a wicked observer of social folly."--Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls "Pitigrilli was an enjoyable writer--spicy and rapid--like lightning."--Umberto Eco "The name of the author Pitigrilli ... is so well known in Italy as to be almost a byword for 'naughtiness' ...... Named Library Journal Best Fiction in Translation 2013. "Cocaine is a brilliant black comedy that belongs on the same shelf as ... |
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