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Cocaine (Paperback)
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Cocaine (Paperback)
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Loot Price R352
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Cocaine is the story of a young man who runs off to Paris to seek
fame, fortune, and fun. Pitigrilli's classic novel charts the
comedy and pathos of a young man's tragic trajectory. Tito Arnaudi
is a dandified hero with several mistresses he juggles. A failed
medical student, Tito is hired as a journalist in Paris, where he
investigates cocaine dens and invents lurid scandals and gruesome
deaths that he sells to newspapers as his own life becomes more
outrageous than his phony press reports. Telling of orgies and
strawberries soaked in champagne and ether, Tito lives with
intensity as he pursues his Italian girlfriend Maud (nee Maddalena)
and wealthy Armenian Kalantan, who insists on making love in a
black coffin. Provocatively illustrated, filled with lush,
intoxicating prose, Cocaine is a wicked novel about the Lost
Generation in 1920s Paris. Dizzy and decadent, Pitigrilli leaves
nothing unexplored as he presents astonishing descriptions of upper
class debauching -- strawberries and chloroform, naked dancing,
cocaine aplenty, and guests openly injecting morphine. Despite its
wit, Cocaine is a sobering account of the dangers of drugs and
sexual obsession. Tito happily trades in his twilight years for
moments of wicked ecstasy.
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