The Bobby Gold Stories

A Novel

by Anthony Bourdain

First U.S. edition, 165 pages

English language

Published May 13, 2003 by Bloomsbury.

ISBN:: 978-1-58234-233-7
OCLC Number:: 51722774

(5 reviews)

From the host of “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown” and New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, a crime novel about a lovable criminal, a fabulous cook, and a botched robbery that sets the pair on the run.

After doing ten years in the clinker, Bobby Gold out and ready for work. With not even an attempt to play it straight, he’s back to breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant racket. It’s not that he enjoys the job—Bobby has real heart—but he’s good at it and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can’t stay away. Bobby Gold had known trouble before, but with Nikki the sauté bitch in his life, things take a turn for life or death.

Inspired by Fitzgerald’s Pat Hobby …

Inspired by Fitzgerald’s Pat Hobby stories, The Bobby Gold Stories is a gem of a novel featuring the best of Bourdain’s work. A fast and furious, pitch-perfect story of food, sex, crimes and mayhem, The Bobby Gold Stories is sure to become a modern classic.

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1 star

The sole reason I read this was because it was the last book I needed to fulfill a reading challenge, but honestly, I would have rathered fail the challenge than read this. It's such a waste of time. It's not well written. Calling it a book is overstating it. Calling it a collection of short stories is overstating it. It's a collection of scenes that are connected and kind of have a point. Only kind of. The one tiny blessing was that this was super short. Each story is at best 3 pages long. So the misery ends quickly.