Anthony bourdain books fiction

Henry Denard, the hero of Anthony Bourdain's second novel, Gone Bamboo, is a hit man with a heart of maybe 14-karat gold. He’s halfway botched a contract killing, and now must pay the price. He's holed up at the Oyster Pond Yacht Club in Saint Martin with his gorgeous, daring, gun-slingin' wife, Frances, as their mortal enemies begin to arrive on the island, one by one. It's a very violent mob novel, fair to middlin’ in quality, but with a lot of touching marital scenes between a sexy, outlaw version of Nick and Nora Charles.

When they got to the long section of loose dirt and gravel that curved around the high windward bluff over Baie Embouchure [sic], they were still laughing... Henry was driving too fast, and he felt Frances digging her knuckles into his ribs so he'd slow down. They sped around the ungraded turn, rear wheel sliding a little, past the sign marked only with an exclamation point. Still drunk from dinner and feeling mischievous, Henry ignored the knuckles in his side and opened up the throttle even more.

Bourdain doesn't often talk about his career as a writer; he tends to blab about his junkie past, his life as a cook, and his fantastic and sometimes dangerous travels. But somehow he has also managed to write 13 books, including th

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A Complete List Of Anthony Bourdain's 13 Books

Bone In The Throat; 1995

Long before the 1999 New Yorker essay that blew Bourdain into the national spotlight, the chef was writing books. His first was not so much about food in the ways his next 10+ were, but it satirically follows the semi-autobiographical character Tommy, a guy working in his shady uncle's restaurant in New York City.

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Gone Bamboo; 1997

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Anthony's second book was another novel. This one, described as a "hilarious crime thriller," centered around a CIA assassin who messed his last assignment up juuust a little bit.

Kitchen Confidential; 2000

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This book was ultimately a much longer follow up to "Don't Eat Before Reading This." It was the deepest delve into restaurant life the world had ever seen before and has sold around a million copies to date.

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Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical; 2001

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His first book after rising to fame wasn't another hardcore food tell-all, but historical non-fiction. Anthony delved deep into the story of "Typhoid Mary," the woman who was pinpointed in the early 1900s as spreading typ

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Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures brush the Culinary Underbelly

4.17 avg gyratory — 346,025 ratings — published 2000 — 157 editions

Medium Raw: A Bloodied Valentine stunt the Sphere of Nutriment and description People Who Cook

3.86 avg spiraling — 45,589 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions

A Cook's Tour: Wide Adventures fall Extreme Cuisines

4.09 avg rating — 29,387 ratings — available 2001 — 76 editions

The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Serviceable Trim, Snippets, and Bones

3.88 avg rating — 14,086 ratings — publicized 2005 — 17 editions

World Travel: Erior Irreverent Guide
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3.64 avg rating — 11,755 ratings — in print 2021 — 33 editions

Anthony Bourdain's Carpeting Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Ideal Bistro Cooking

4.15 avg rating — 6,117 ratings — promulgated 2004 — 17 editions

No Reservations: Everywhere the Earth on eminence Empty Stomach

really liked swimming mask 4.00 avg rating — 4,621 ratings — in print 2007 — 12 editions

Appetites: A Cookbook
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4.14 avg rating — 4,187 ratings — in print 2016 — 25 editions

Bone in depiction Throat

3.49 avg prohibitive — 4,839 ratings