Frank Owen

Clubland

The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9780767917353
• ISBN-10: 0767917359
• Artikelnr.: 21704760

Autorenporträt

Frank Owen