Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
by Jad Adams

Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
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Author: Jad Adams
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN: 1845116844
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Book Reviews of Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

Book Review: Overrated and Pretentious
Summary: 2 Stars

Adams covers the same info that Conrad and Baker discuss but with a tone of condescension and puritanism that blankets the text like a fine scum of oil over water. Halfway though the book I wanted to curse him; after listening to his boorish and uninspired NPR interview I wanted to punch his lights out. If you like feeling superior, this book is for you. Otherwise stick with Conrad.

Summary of Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)

Mysteriously sophisticated, darkly alluring, almost Satanic: absinthe was the drink of choice for Baudelaire, Verlaine and Wilde. It inspired paintings by Degas and Manet, van Gogh and Picasso. It was blamed for conditions ranging from sterility to madness, to French defeats in World War I. The campaign against "the devil in a bottle" resulted in its ban throughout most of Europe. Its reputation for toxicity eventually extinguished the fin-de-si?cle's infatuation with absinthe, but not before it had influenced generations of artists on both sides of the channel. This book is a biography of "the green fairy": from its place in the lives of writers and artists who were inspired--and ruined--by it, to its more recent rediscovery by Ernest Hemingway and today's would-be sophisticates.

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