Snowblind by Robert Sabbag6/30/2023 ![]() The most authentic story of the big-time cocaine trade that has hit print, and Sabbag tells it with novelistic razzle-dazzle, setting down knife-sharp scenes as the action moves: Mexico, New York’s big hotels, Harlem streets, Bogota’s high and low-life. ![]() ![]() It is destined to become an American classic.” Claude Brown, Jr.Ī beautifully written book.” Rita Mae Brown It is that rare kind of book that compels a reader to call up all of his friends and read passages to them over the telephone. The ultimate slide down the precipice of hip.” Susan BrownmillerĪfter reading Robert Sabbag’s Snowblind, one is overcome with a sense of having finally understood America. One of the most dazzling and spectacular pieces of reporting I have ever read.” Nora EphronĪn extremely rare cut of dry wit, poetry, rock-hard fact and relentless insight.” Rolling StoneĪ triumphant piece of reporting.” The New YorkerĪ witty, intelligent, fiercely stylish, drug-induced exemplary tale.” Los Angeles Times One of the best books about drugs ever written.” Robert Stone ![]() It moves like a threshing machine with a fuel tank full of ether. One of the first books about the cocaine trade and it is still among the best.” Norman MailerĪ flat-out ballbuster. ![]()
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