The headlines numb the entire world: Lisa Wilde is dead. The singer known as the Canary, whose music excited a generation, is killed in a crash. Now her ex-lover, the man who helped merchandise the idol and make her a star, receives the horrifying message from the brass at RPM Records: cover up her murder. Canary is a literate, hard-edged suspense novel about the underbelly of today's multibillion-dollar record industry. From L.A. to San Francisco, New York and Europe, from the poolsides of the moguls who package the sounds to the flash of the Strip that pulsates to them, Canary follows one man as he stalks Lisa Wilde's killer-only to learn that the same trap that ensnared the Canary is closing in fast on him. A riveting international thriller, Canary is all the more compelling because it was written by an insider. A former creative director of a major record label, Tony Cohan knows the inside story of life and death in the fast lane. Canary is so real and shocking, readers won't be able to catch their breath.

Canary

COHAN, TONY

doubleday& co.

Read by the authorThree Cassettes, approx. 5 hours, 15 minutesWhen Los Angeles-based novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife Masako visited central Mexico one winter, they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air. Awakened to needs they didn't know they had, they returned to California, sold their house, and cast off for a new life in San Miguel de Allende. On Mexican Time is Cohan's passionate, evocatively written memoir of how he and his wife found a new home and a new lease on life in this charming 16th century hill town.In an alternately humorous and poignant narrative, Cohan recounts how they absorb the town's sensual ambiance, eventually find and refurbish a crumbling 250-year old house, and become entwined in the endless drama of Mexican life. From peso devaluations and water shortages to the local legend of a man who was "killed twice" and the romantic entanglements of their handyman. On Mexican Time captures the indelible characters, little tragedies, and curious incidences of life in a distinctive Mexican town. At the same time it enfolds readers into the delights of one of the world's most desirable travel destinations.Brimming with mystery, joy and hilarity, On Mexican Time is a stirring, seductive celebration of another way of life a tale of Americans who, finding a home in Mexico, find themselves anew.        

On Mexican Time: A Home in San Miguel

Travel

Travel Writing

Random House Audio |

Innocent family members are dragged into a world of violence and corruption when the Lin family of Hong Kong--long-standing kingpins of the illicit opium trade--is threatened by new competition from European syndicates

Opium: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Simon&Schuster

Opium (CH)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Charnwood

On Mexican Time: a New Life in San Miguel

Biographies & Memoirs

Broadway Books

On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter, they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air. Awakened to needs they didn't know they had, they returned to California, sold their house, and cast off for San Miguel de Allende. On Mexican Time is Cohan's passionate, evocatively written memoir of how he and his wife found a new home and a new lease on life--in this charming sixteenth-century hill town. In an alternately humorous and poignant narrative, Cohan recounts how they absorb the town's sensual ambiance, eventually find and refurbish a crumbling 250-year-old house, and become entwined in the endless drama of Mexican life. From peso devaluations and water shortages to the romantic entanglements of their handyman and the local legend of a man who was "killed twice," On Mexican Time captures the indelible characters, little tragedies, and curious incidents of life in a distinctive Mexican town. At the same time it enfolds readers in the delights of one of the world's most desirable travel destinations. Brimming with mystery, joy, and hilarity, On Mexican Time is a stirring, seductive celebration of another way of life--a tale of Americans who, finding a home in Mexico, find themselves anew.

Broadway

An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air. Awakened to needs they didn’t know they had, they returned to California, sold their house and cast off for a new life in San Miguel de Allende. On Mexican Time is Cohan's evocatively written memoir of how he and his wife absorb the town's sensual ambiance, eventually find and refurbish a crumbling 250-year-old house, and become entwined in the endless drama of Mexican life. Brimming with mystery, joy, and hilarity, On Mexican Time is a stirring, seductive celebration of another way of life—a tale of Americans who, finding a home in Mexico, find themselves anew.

Reference

A captivating, deeply affecting memoir chronicling a journey from a Hollywood childhood as the son of a fading show business figure to a bohemian life in Europe and back to his native state of California, where the author must face the man who had driven him away. Summoned from abroad to attend to the ninety-four-year-old father he’s never been close to, writer and musician Tony Cohan finds himself reliving his own peripatetic life—a kaleidoscopic odyssey from California’s sunny postwar promise through the burnt end of the 1960s to the final days of the last century. An engrossing investigation of memory and identity, love and desire, art and fate, Native State vividly portrays the author’s attempts to escape the confines of a celebrity-filled, alcoholic family through music, writing, and travel. His descent into the colorful milieus of musical and literary geniuses and lowlifes, divas and crooks, fortune tellers and culture gods in Paris, Tangier, London, Copenhagen, Barcelona, San Francisco, Kyoto, and Los Angeles coalesces into a distinctive, intimate depiction of a pivotal cultural era. Throughout, Cohan brilliantly interweaves and contrasts his past experiences with his present-day reflections on the universal youthful desire to flee home and family, and the simultaneous “undertow of origins” urging a return. The result is a work that combines unusually rich storytelling with extraordinary literary quality. Poignant, elegantly crafted, and often funny, Native State is an indelible portrait of the artist as a young man, and—as son and dying father grope toward acceptance—a coming-to-terms with self, family, origins, and the elusive American idea of home.

Native State: A Memoir

Regional U.S.

Native State: A Journey of Escape and Return

Arts & Literature

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