Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain -- Ed Simon, Hardcover Cooking / Wine Collecting all six black-and-white digest-sized

Collecting all six black-and-white digest-sized volumes in one gorgeous slipcase with an exclusive poster

the sweet boy who once had dreams of better things

Cammie and the crew of Nether Station must find the answers--before the darkest part of the cosmos swallows them up

ISBN: 9780593428238

Written with a mixture of sad-eyed naïveté and wild abandon and imbued with Kerouac's love of America

Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain -- Ed Simon, Hardcover Cooking / Wine Collecting all six black-and-white digest-sized"Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now." James Wood, The New Yorker A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond . . . From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations. Scholar Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour