Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Cocaine
⚡Book Author : Pitigrilli
⚡Page : 261 pages
⚡Published September 15th 2013 by New Vessel Press (first published 1922)
Cocaine - Paris in the 1920s dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits unless he is led into temptation. Cocaines 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, Pitigrillis classic novel was first published in Italian in 1921 and charts the comedy and tragedy of a young mans downfall and the lure of a bygone era. The novels 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.
Cocaine
Paris in the 1920s dizzy and decadent. Where a young man can make a fortune with his wits unless he is led into temptation. Cocaines 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, Pitigrillis classic novel was first published in Italian in 1921 and charts the comedy and tragedy of a young mans downfall and the lure of a bygone era. The novels 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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