The Bobby Gold Stories A Novel

by Bourdain, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781582342337
• ISBN10: 1582342334
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-13
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

Bestselling author Tony Bourdain is back with a new novel, his first fiction since the groundbreaking success ofKitchen Confidential. Bobby Gold is a loveable criminal. After doing ten years in the clinker, he's out and ready for work. With not even an attempt to play it straight, he's back to breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant racket. It's not that he enjoys the job-Bobby has real heart-but he's good at it and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can't stay away. Bobby Gold had known trouble before, but with Nikki the sauteacute; bitch in his life, things take a turn for life or death. Inspired by Fitzgerald's Pat Hobby stories,The Bobby Gold Storiesis a gem of a novel featuring the best of Bourdain's work. Fans will recognize the gangster riffs of Bone in the Throat, the antics of the sexy criminal couple of Gone Bamboo, and the brilliant restaurant scenes fromKitchen Confidential. Distilled into a fast and furious, pitch-perfect story of food, sex, crimes and mayhem,The Bobby Gold Storiesis sure to become a modern classic.

Author Biography

Anthony Bourdain is the author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, which spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, the Urban Historical Typhoid Mary, as well as A Cook's Tour, which was turned into a successful series by the same name for the Food Network. His mystery novels include Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.

Table of Contents

Bobby in Color	1	(8)
Bobby at Work	9	(18)
Bobby the Diplomat	27	(16)
Bobby Eats Out	43	(20)
Bobby in Love	63	(12)
Bobby Gets Jilted	75	(22)
Bobby Gets Blue	97	(12)
Bobby at the Beach	109	(4)
Bobby Gets Squeezed	113	(18)
Bobby's Not Here	131	(10)
Bobby Takes It on the Lam	141	(12)
Bobby Gone	153