About Nick Tosches

Critical Acclaim for Nick Tosches

"...'In the Hand of Dante can be classified as a work of mystery or crime, but the paths to and from its core mystery are far from predictable...'..." - Ian Penman, Guardian Unlimited

"...[Tosches] combines the starkness of Jim Thompson and the grittiness of Charles Bukowski with a highly literate sensibility...Mr. Tosches's powerful writing is often beautiful...." - Wall Street Journal

"...Few writers would even think of this kind of book, much less attempt to write it. And somehow, the sheer audaciousness of Tosches' writing not only blasts through our resistance to suspend disbelief but it also makes most other fiction seem phony by comparison...Tosches is ready to take his place at the front of the class in contemporary American literature...an inspired piece of fiction...." - San Francisco Chronicle

"...A splendid, passionate mess, with a moral fervor far exceeding most novels of better grooming...." - Will Blythe, New York Times

"...Tosches is ready to take his place at the front of the class in contemporary American literature with this combination of a modern crime drama with a fictional account of Dante's own journey of the heart..." - Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle

"...a Norman Mailer for the post-Elvis era..." - Joy Press, Village Voice

"...This is a singular American writer unafraid to wrestle with monstrous themes and to examine his own deep fearsome wounds - and break your heart with the beauty of language at the same time. You'll love it, you'll hate it, you won't be able to put it down...." - Orlando Sentinel

"...Tosches has written a riveting read and a surreal, complicated work that measures up to the controversy it will generate...." - Cleveland Plain Dealer

"...Tsches is one of the more intoxicating, infuriating writers around. . .the author is also a lyrical chronicler of Mafia culture and a formidable scholar of the classics...." - Book Magazine

"...the most audacious thing about In the Hand of Dante is the author's furious delivery of rare aesthetic bliss..." - Entertainment Weekly