Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture
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- Frank Owen
- Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Paperback
- 9780767917353
- 9.21 X 6.18 X 0.75 inches
- 1.06 pounds
- Social Science > Popular Culture
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Welcome to the decadent nineties club scene.
In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on Special K, a designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally notorious Limelight, a crumbling church converted into a Manhattan disco, where mesmerizing music, ecstatic dancers, and uninhibited sideshows attracted long lines of hopeful onlookers. Owen discovered a world where reckless hedonism was elevated to an art form, and where the ever-accelerating party finally spun out of control in the hands of notorious club owner Peter Gatien and his minions. In Clubland, Owen reveals how a lethal drug ring operated in a lawless, black-lit realm of fantasy, and how, when the lights came up, their excesses left countless victims in their wake.
Praised for his risk-taking and exhilarating writing style, Frank Owen has spawned a hybrid of literary nonfiction and true crime, capturing the zeitgeist of a world that emerged in the spirit of peace, love, unity and respect, and ended in tragedy.
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