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...want to make the list tighter, to make the quality higher, to publish every book on the list as well as I can." And "well" means something different for Canongate than it does for any other house. Byng reedited the early chapters of Pi with Martel, and for Snowblind, a book by Robert Sabbag about drug smuggling, he produced a limited edition, complete with a Damien Hirst drug kit - mirror, razor blade and $100 bill. Invited to Buckingham Palace for a literary evening, Byng talked his way into an introduction to the Queen and presented her with a volume, drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Byng Theory | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

...Snowblind, a 1976 study of cocaine dealing that has become something of a cult book, Robert Sabbag wrote: "Cocaine, like motorcycles, machine guns and White House politics, is, among many things, a virility substitute. Its mere possession imparts status-cocaine equals money, and money equals power. And, as if in mute imitation of its symbolism, cocaine's presence in the blood, like no other drug, accounts for a feeling of confidence that is rare in the behavioral sink of post-industrial America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...started into "Snowblind," a cut off his new album...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Rock 'n Roll Sometimes Forgets | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...late 1940s in neglecting these novels on original publication may have been sound, for Snow's characters are the sort who disappear the minute the author takes his eyes off them. Even cultists who cozy up with these 814 pages may find themselves merely Snowbound and Snowblind. And yet Snow seems to touch a nerve in 20th century readers-perhaps because he evokes with easy assurance the intellectual and social history of the '20s and '30s; or perhaps because his concept of life as a conspiracy in quest of power has a timeliness and meaning that even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Polonius | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

...December ten men, five women and two boys tried it again. All but three of them had homemade snowshoes. They carried a blanket apiece and "minute rations" that must last six days. The first day they made four miles. The second day they crossed the divide, but they were snowblind and had only an ounce of food a day. Their feet froze. By Christmas Eve, they had been tramping nine days, two days without food. They had lost the trail. "To go on they must live, to live they must eat, but there was no food. But there was food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Divide | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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