Clubland by Frank Owen

Clubland by Frank Owen

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.

During the past fifteen years, Frank Owen has worked as a journalist for Playboy, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Newsday, The Washington Post, Spin, Details, and Vibe, among others. Clubland: The Spectacular Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture, his critically acclaimed book, was published in 2003 by St. Martin's Press. Martin's Press is a publishing house based in New York. He is a New Yorker.

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ISBN 13	9780312287665
ISBN 10	0312287666
Title	Clubland
Author	Frank Owen
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Year published	2003-05-08
Number of pages	320
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