Synopsis
About Nick Tosches
See more books from this AuthorFrom cultural critic and occasional novelist Tosches (Where Dead Voices Gather, 2001, etc.), a personal Commedia of errors that may not be the book of the millennium he aims for.
| Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelOne "Nick Tosches" lives (as Tosches wrote of Louis Prima) in "a world in which everything came down to broads, booze, and money, with plenty of linguini on the side" - while another Nick Tosches, cusping the big five-0, sets himself to learning Latin, the better to deepen his understanding of Da...
Jan 25 2003 | Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelDeftly blending the sacred and the profane, Tosches boldly casts himself as the protagonist in his latest novel, an outrageously ambitious book in which he procures a purloined version of the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy while tracing Dante's journey as Dante struggled to complete hi...
| Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelIN THE HAND OF DANTE bears the label "A Novel" on the cover.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelA brash, brooding novel that twists a postmodern narrative into a rumination on the doomed glory of old-world metafiction, In The Hand Of Dante bears the distinctly forceful stamp of Nick Tosches.
Sep 23 2002 | Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelThe soon-to-be-infamous ''rant'' in Nick Tosches' In the Hand of Dante -- a piece of provocation finely calibrated by a masterly hype artist -- is really no more offensive than Sade's ''Justine'' or N.W.A's ''Greatest Hits'' and, in general, better reasoned than both.
Sep 06 2002 | Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelThe chapters devoted to Dante are some of the most intriguing and beautifully written sections of the book.
Oct 23 2002 | Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelBe aware, too, that there's little context, and no source notes, for guidance.Nick Tosches known for acclaimed biographies of Dean Martin and Jerry Lee Lewis appears to be a writer who, ironically, distrusts writing ( artful whoredom") and publishing (which he denounces here at length).
Apr 20 2016 | Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelHowever, like the priest, Nick, even knowing the danger, purloins the manuscript as he tries to resolve whether he possesses an original or a clever copy and if legitimate how much would it bring in the marketplace.
Sep 01 2002 | Read Full Review of In the Hand of Dante: A NovelAn aggregated and normalized score based on 66 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes