Reading rank 429
Gone Bamboo
, subject: Bourdain's Caribbean crime novel about a retired assassin and a failed hit
The early Bourdain novel David connects to the quieter beach-and-cocktail life its author said he wanted.
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About the book
A darkly comic Caribbean crime novel about a retired assassin, the target he failed to kill, and the mobster pursuing them both.
Why read it
Best if you want Bourdain's Caribbean crime fiction and the work David uses to examine the gap between an imagined life and a relentlessly driven one.
Key themes
- Write the imagined life
- Stated desire versus chosen work
Evidence and original sources
This record is supported by 1 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Tony Bourdain: The Definitive Biography — David uses Gone Bamboo to connect Bourdain's fiction to the quiet beach-and-cocktail life he said he wanted and to the tension between that stated dream and the driven working life he continued to choose.
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