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 |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2003-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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