Anybody read BONE IN THE THROAT or GONE BAMBOO by Anthony
Bourdain? asked Al.
Yes, I read and enjoyed them both and here are a couple of
very brief reviews I wrote -
John
I have to say that the prospect of reading a novel, Bone In
The Throat
(Canongate £10), by a New York Celebrity chef, Anthony
Bourdain, was less than mouthwatering but, hey, I was wrong.
Bone In the Throat is a deceptively easy tale of Mafia
feuding and gastronomy. Bourdain's kitchen background gives
the set-up an easy conviction and in the smacked-up shape of
the man known only as 'the Chef', Bourdain has created a
memorably funny/sad archetype.
Anthony Bourdain's Gone Bamboo (Canongate £10). New York chef
Bourdain's debut Bone In the Throat was a remarkably sly and
funny successful New York Mafia novel. Gone Bamboo sees that
book's hapless hero, would-be chef Tommy, laying low in the
Caribbean. What follows is for the most part a thoroughly
enjoyable thriller with comic touches after the fashion of
the late great Ross Thomas. It's a tale that builds nicely as
a laid-back hit-man and a Mafia capo with a colostomy bag
start to ruin Tommy's hopes for a quiet life. The ending,
however, does its best to screw things up royally, as this
thoroughly likable tale suddenly erupts into a gratuitously
'cinematic' bloodbath.
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