Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Woolever, Laurie

Published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 2021

About this Item

New condition white boards with gold spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Quote by Anthony Bourdain; Cast of Characters (in order of first appearance); Introduction; Acknowledgments and Index of Contributors. Illustrated with two sections of both black-and-white and color photographic plates and a black-and-white photographic frontispiece. "An Unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring ninety-one interviews with the people who knew him best. When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate an inimitable man who was dedicated to traveling nearly everywhere and bringing the stories of others to light. Him impact was outsized, and since his death, his legacy has only grown. Now, for the first time, we have been granted a look at Bourdain's full story through the observations and recollections of those closest to him. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain's longtime assistant and coauthor, interviewed almost one hundred of the people in Tony's orbit -- from members of his kitchen crews and his writing, publishing, and television partners to his daughter and his most trusted associates -- in order to piece together a full, vivid, and nuanced vision of his life and work. We see the many sides of Tony -- his motivations, his ambivalence, his vulnerability, his blind spots, and his brilliance -- from his childhood and teenage days to his early years in New York, through the genesis of his game-changing memoir, Kitchen Confidential, and his emergence as a writer and television personality, in the words of such luminaries as Eric Ripert, Jose Andres, Nigella Lawson, Patrick Radden Keefe, Bill Buford, Christiane Amapour, and W. Kamau Bell, and family members, including his brother, Christopher Bourdain, and late mother, Gladys Bourdain. Unparalleled in scope and deeply intimate in execution, with a treasure trove of photos documenting Tony's days, Bourdain is a definitive testament to a remarkable man, in the words of the people who shared his world." -- from the inner front jacket flap.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York
• Publication Date: 2021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Saltzman, Allison (jacket design); Holloway, David Scott (author photograph)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New