Cocaine Paperback | Pages: 261 pages

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Original Title:	Cocaina
ISBN:	1939931096 (ISBN13: 9781939931092)
Edition Language:	English URL http://newvesselpress.com/books/cocaine/

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Paris in the 1920s – dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits … unless he is led into temptation. Cocaine’s dandified hero Tito Arnaudi invents lurid scandals and gruesome deaths, and sells these stories to the newspapers. But his own life becomes even more outrageous than his press reports when he acquires three demanding mistresses. Elegant, witty and wicked, Pitigrilli’s classic novel was first published in Italian in 1921 and charts the comedy and tragedy of a young man’s downfall and the lure of a bygone era. The novel’s descriptions of sex and drug use prompted church authorities to place it on a list of forbidden books, while appealing to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder who wrote a script based on the tale. Cocaine retains its venom even today.

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Title	:	Cocaine
Author	:	Pitigrilli
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 261 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2013 by New Vessel Press (first published 1922)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. European Literature. Italian Literature

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Ratings: 3.82 From 342 Users | 39 Reviews

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This reads a bit like Isherwood's THE BERLIN STORIES meets THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY though not as good as either. It's an interesting book from an interesting time. Worth the read. Parts are very enjoyable. Ultimately I think it needed to be fleshed out a bit more.Glad I read it.

A new translation of the Pitigrilli classicA welcome new publishing house on the scene is New Vessel Press whose mission in the literary field is to offer translations of foreign literature into English. Their choice of books is a fascinating one - they have the courage to bring to us in the 21st century some books that have been condemned in the 20th century (the present book COCAINE is an example), while uncovering authors of quality to place before the English reading public.A bit about the

Lui si fa di cocaina

E se Bardamu avesse fatto i soldi e con le donne ci avesse saputo fare come Andrea Sperelli?Strano autore questo Pitigrilli, sperimenta, scandalizza, commuove e fa persino riflettere.Al giorno d'oggi, è chiaro, non scandalizza più nessuno, ma pensare che nel 1921 quando fu scritto, c'era un certo Dino Segre, ebreo prima che le leggi razziali lo costringessero all'esilio, che si divertiva a scrivere, in odor di Futurismo e con le lezioni di stile di un certo D'Annunzio alle spalle, di cocaina,

Novel published in the 20s' in Paris, Italy. A modern love story. Cynical at times with a comic touch. Because of description of sex and drugs churches put it on list of forbidden books to read. Writing is excellent and entertaining.

Was für ein Buch! In den Zwanziger Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts (das Buch wurde 1922 veröffentlicht) flüchtet ein junger Mann aus Liebeskummer nach Paris. Dort wird er mehr oder weniger zufällig Journalist und verfällt dem Kokain ebenso wie zwei Frauen, zwischen denen er hin- und hergerissen ist: Seine alte Liebe von einst, früher Maddalena, jetzt Maud, 'hatte die ganze Skala einfacher Liebe durchschritten, um sich auf die Suche nach dem Laster zu machen.' Und Kalantan, die bildschöne

Großartiges Buch, sehr erstaunlich, dass das schon 1927 geschrieben wurde.