Me and the Devil

A Novel

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By Nick Tosches

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An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can’t even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets a tantalizing young woman who agrees to come back to his apartment. Their encounter is the most strangely extraordinary of his life. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he enters a new and unimagined dimension of the forbidden and is filled with a sexual and spiritual ecstasy that is as intense as it is unholy.

Suddenly Nick’s senses are alive. He feels strong, unconquerable, beyond all inhibition and earthly morality. He indulges in life’s pleasures, pure and perverse, sublime and dangerous, from the delicate flavors of the perfect tomato to the fleshy beauty of a woman’s thigh. But Nick’s desire to sustain his rapture leads him to a madness and a darkness far greater and dreadful than have ever ridden the demon mares of night. Writing in a lineage that includes Dante, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, Hubert Selby, Jr., and Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches may be America’s last real literary outlaw — a fearless, uncensorable seeker of our deepest secret truths and desires, from the basest to the most beautiful.

Me and the Devil is outrageous, disturbing, and brilliant, a raw and blazing novel truly unlike any other. Like the man said: Read him at your peril.

“A raw and blazing novel by “the single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril.” — Anthony Bourdain

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  • ACCLAIM FOR IN THE HAND OF DANTE:
  • "This is the best, from one of the best writers around. Nick Tosches knows the devil as well as any man has."
    Keith Richards
  • "Words and wisdom that I shall carry with me into the fucking dirt."
    Johnny Depp
  • "An incendiary novel....A blindingly brilliant and joltingly weird work of art."
    Entertainment Weekly
  • "Astounding...A staggering work of genius"
    Chauncey Mabe, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  • "If there was ever any doubt that Nick Tosches is the Dark Prince of literary fiction, Me and the Devil should settle the matter. The single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your peril."
    Anthony Bourdain
  • "It's more than a book. It's a living thing. Unbelievable. I read everything by Nick Tosches.... A modern masterpiece. Utterly superior to almost everything published within the last 50 years. I won't bother trying to describe it. Just go get it."
    Johnny Depp
  • "A dark narrative that cleverly blurs the lines between reality and fantasy....Tosches takes readers on an unpredictable journey through disturbing and erotic desires ....excellent."
    Booklist
  • "Tosches has created an erotic asphalt odyssey that takes him on a subcutaneous awakening, drifting through a world of hallucinations, dark secrets and dangerous desires."
    Peter Wolf
  • "Splendid, passionate....A strange, wild hybrid of a novel...with a moral fervor far exceeding most novels of better grooming."
    Will Blythe, New York Times Book Review

On Sale
Dec 4, 2012
Page Count
400 pages
ISBN-13
9780316215664

Nick Tosches

About the Author

Nick Tosches (1949-2019) was the author of four previous novels, Me and the DevilIn the Hands of DanteCut Numbers, and Trinities. His nonfiction works include Where Dead Voices GatherThe Devil and Sonny ListonDinoPower on EarthHellfireCountry, and Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll. He lives in New York City.

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