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 torious 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 torious 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 nfiction and true crime, capturing the zeitgeist of a world that emerged in the spirit of peace, love, unity and respect, and ended in tragedy.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc), Broadway Books A Division of Bantam Doubleday Del
ISBN-10
0767917359
ISBN-13
9780767917353
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183667170
Product Key Features
Author
Frank Owen
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Studies: General
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/06/2004
Country of Publication
United States
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