Me and the Devil

Name: Me and the Devil
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Nick Tosches
ISBN: 9781666597189

Author: Nick Tosches

Narrator: Rick Zieff

Unabridged: 13 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/04/2012

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Occult & Supernatural

Synopsis

Nick Tosches feels life ebbing out of him. He wanders New York City's streets and alleys, immersing himself in the crowd, eventually retreating to a dimly lit bar. There, in the gloom, he meets a tantalizing young woman, and the night that follows is unlike anything he has ever experienced. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he tastes human blood for the first time and is filled with a sexual and spiritual ecstasy. The revival quickly fades, and soon Nick is yearning for another taste of the elusive rapture. There follows a descent into madness and a darkness beyond any darkness he has ever imagined, culminating in a revelation beyond all darkness and all light as well.

About Nick Tosches

Born in Newark and schooled in his father's bar, Nick Tosches is the author of acclaimed biographies of Sonny Liston, Dean Martin, the Mafia financier Michele Sindona, and Jerry Lee Lewis; of books about popular music; and of the novels Cut Numbers, Trinities, and In the Hand of Dante. His writings through three decades were collected in The Nick Tosches Reader. He is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair.

About Rick Zieff

Rick Zieff enjoys being in a padded room talking to himself...Usually, there is a microphone in there with him. Rick is a popular narrator both adult fiction (i.e. the upcoming thriller 'The Lawyer's Lawyer') and non-fiction ('Ancient Chinese Masters'), as well as kids' books (Disney's 'Toy Story,' 'Toy Story 2,' 'Toy Story 3'). Rick is a busy narrator for corporate industrials, and he voices many cartoons ('Korra') and videogames ('Guild Wars I and II').

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

"The older we get, the more ghosts crowd and claim us. Death does not deter the dead from living within us and around us. We are under their spell. The world becomes irrevocably haunted." An old man faces the frigid fact of aging and sees nothing. It is in this nothingness that he finds a kind of fod......more

Goodreads review by Brad

This is not a book for everyone, or for most. It is dark and cuts deep into our societies blood lust in all its forms. I have long been a fan of Mr. Tosches, and this book did not disappoint. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.......more

Goodreads review by Fack

Changed my rating from five stars to three stars after reading Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. Many times throughout reading Steppenwolf, I thought, "Hey, this kinda reminds me of that one book I read a while back.... Me and the Devil? Nick Tosches?" and as soon as I thought of this, I couldn't stop se......more