The Fruit Palace by Charles Nicholl
Charles Nicholl is on a quest for 'The Great Cocaine Story'. The Fruit Palace is a little whitewashed cafe that legally dispenses tropical fruit juices, has another purpose as the meeting place for a variety of black market activities and the place where Nicholl unwittingly begins his quest.
Evokes that vague, sleepy enchantment which comes from dreaming of 'somewhere else'.. There are echoes of Chandler, of Burroughs, of Baudelaire and even of Eliot * Sunday Times *
Mr Nicholl proves himself an addictive storyteller-A delicious addition to the library of the Briton out of his depth abroad * Daily Telegraph *
One of the most absorbing travel books I have read... No book I know gives a more perceptive glimpse of the life of the urban poor who are the majority of South Americans. A brilliant book, informative, well-written and fun to read * New York Times Book Review *
A considerable delight - funny, acute and remarkably evocative * Time Out *
Irresistible.. His story is so good that at times it reads like an unusually well-written thriller, then suddenly it turns into lyrical, highly-descriptive travel writing * Irish Times *
Mr Nicholl proves himself an addictive storyteller-A delicious addition to the library of the Briton out of his depth abroad * Daily Telegraph *
One of the most absorbing travel books I have read... No book I know gives a more perceptive glimpse of the life of the urban poor who are the majority of South Americans. A brilliant book, informative, well-written and fun to read * New York Times Book Review *
A considerable delight - funny, acute and remarkably evocative * Time Out *
Irresistible.. His story is so good that at times it reads like an unusually well-written thriller, then suddenly it turns into lyrical, highly-descriptive travel writing * Irish Times *
Charles Nicholl has written two travel books, The Fruit Palace and Borderlines; a study of Elizabethan alchemy, The Chemical Theatre, and a biography of the pamphleteer Thomas Nashe, A Cup of News. He has also written a reconstruction of Sir Walter Ralegh's search for El Dorado, The Creature in the Map, and Somebody Else, which won the 1998 Hawthornden Prize. His work has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone and the Independent.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099274049 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099274043 |
| Title | The Fruit Palace |
| Author | Charles Nicholl |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1998-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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