In the Weeds In the Weeds

In the Weeds

Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

    • 4.7 • 96 Ratings
    • $11.99

Publisher Description

**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction**

Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend.

 
In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His passion for and genuine curiosity about the people and cultures he visited made the world feel smaller and more connected. Despite his affable, confident, and trademark snarky TV persona, the real Tony was intensely private, deeply conflicted about his fame, and an enigma even to those close to him. Tony’s devoted crew knew him best, and no one else had a front-row seat for as long as his director and producer, Tom Vitale.

Over the course of more than a decade traveling together, Tony became a boss, a friend, a hero and, sometimes, a tormentor.In the Weeds takes readers behind the scenes to reveal not just the insanity that went into filming in some of the most far-flung and volatile parts of the world, but what Tony was like unedited and off-camera. From the outside, the job looked like an all-expenses-paid adventure to places like Borneo, Vietnam, Iran, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Libya. What happened off-camera was far more interesting than what made it to air. The more things went wrong, the better it was for the show. Fortunately, everything fell apart constantly.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2021
October 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hachette Books
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
20.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Sam@picCollage1 ,

Great read

What an incredible story of grief and gratitude to man who chose to end his life the way he did…Vitale’s deep loss and sadness is palpable throughout his narrative masking it with a lot of thought provoking and self deprecating emotion while revealing Anthony Bourdian’s conflicted and anguished life and applying it on his own. Truly amazing!

Dirtstar59 ,

The real story.

Real stories from someone show was actually there. If you are a fan of Tony and his work then this is a must read, compulsive, page turner.

StephieVi ,

Best book I’ve read in a while

Loved it

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