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Last Night at the Viper Room
Gavin Edwards
River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind
It Books
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
300 pages ISBN: 0062273159 EAN: 9780062273154 Kindle: B00BATNNRM Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author
and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and
tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix—a teen idol on
the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug
overdose in front of West Hollywood’s storied club, the
Viper Room, at the age of 23. Last Night at the
Viper Room explores the young star’s life, including
his childhood in Venezuela growing up under the aegis of the
cultish Children of God. Putting him at the center of a new
generation of leading men emerging in the early 1990s—
including Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Brad Pitt, Nicolas
Cage, and Leonardo DiCaprio—Gavin Edwards traces the Academy
Award nominee’s meteoric rise, couches him in an examination
of the 1990s, and illuminates his lasting legacy on
Hollywood and popular culture itself.
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