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Title: Absinthe: History in a Bottle by Barnaby Conrad ISBN: 0-8118-1650-8 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books I've ever read
Comment: I have been a fan of this book ever since it first came out in 1988. No amazon.com then, so I was forced to order it at the local Walden books. I have since given it as a gift several times and all my friends love it,too. Not just a history of the "green fairy," but a sociological history of 19th century France. Every page in this glossily produced, gorgeous book has either an old photograph, advertisement for absinthe or reproduction of art from the artists who were fans of absinthe. Really an art book, it is for anyone interested in art and history.
Rating: 5
Summary: O Absinthe, we sing your praises-"I believe in that poison!"
Comment: Perhaps my favorite book of 1997. The art reproductions are deliriously good; as for the brief writer bios, I mean come on, the names themselves are an intoxicant: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Manet, Van Gogh, Picasso, Jarry, Wilde, Hemingway... Good Lord man, thank you! I found the historical aspect provocative--was it 1890s France, or 1990s "drug hysteria" America? I recommended it to plenty of customers where I work and they loved it. It's virtually the only book out there on the subject! Strange coincidence: the day after I read it, I saw the (then) new Nine Inch Nails video "Perfect Drug" & guess what potent & exotic liquour our man Trent Reznor was imbibing? The whole production design was fin-de-siecle artwork. I hope the MTV kids were paying attention! A must-have for those interested in French art and literature, bohemian culture, or esoteric subject matter. Now if they just put the stuff in six-packs....
Rating: 3
Summary: The definitive text, in English anyway
Comment: Remarkably similar in content and appearance to "L'absinthe : histoire de la fee verte" by Marie-Claude Delahaye, who runs the Absinthe Museum in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris. She recalls providing Mr. Conrad with much of the artwork and other content, and was a bit miffed at her modest credit in the bibliography.
Her book is a much more detailed history, but it's in French and hard to find, so this is a quality English guide to a legendary vice. If you get to Paris, though, go see the museum for more.
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Title: The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History by Phil Baker ISBN: 0802139930 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Absinthe Sip of Seduction: A Contemporary Guide by Betina Wittels, Robert Hermesch, Ed. T. A. Breaux ISBN: 0972577610 Publisher: Speck Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Absinthe: The Green Goddess by Aleister Crowley ISBN: 1558182705 Publisher: Holmes Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: In the Arms of Morpheus: The Tragic History of Laudanum, Morphine, and Patent Medicines by Barbara Hodgson ISBN: 1552975401 Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Absinthe the Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century: A History of the Hallucinogenic Drug and Its Effect on Artitsts and Writers in Europe and the United by Doris Lanier ISBN: 0899509894 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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