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The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture
Brookings Institution Press
June 2004
On Sale: June 8, 2004
336 pages
ISBN: 0767917359
EAN: 9780767917353
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Non-Fiction
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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