{"product_id":"clubland-the-fabulous-rise-and-murderous-fall-of-club-culture-9780767917353","title":"Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture","description":"Outrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWelcome to the decadent nineties club scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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\u003ci\u003e Clubland\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraised 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-2348543\"\u003eFrank Owen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.18w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780767917353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0767917359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC022000\"\u003ePopular Culture\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Manchester, England, \u003cb\u003eFrank Owen\u003c\/b\u003e received an American studies degree from Keele University, and later went on to earn his MA at the Birmingham Centre of Cultural Studies. He trained as a radio journalist at the BBC. In the 1980s he moved from London to New York to become the music editor at \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. His work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArena\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElle, LA Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUS.\u003c\/i\u003e He's the author of \u003ci\u003eClubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNo Speed Limit: The Highs and Lows of Meth. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42660006133997,"sku":"9780767917353","price":20.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_cde6626f-695f-455f-a938-58a9b3ead455.jpg?v=1649346318","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/clubland-the-fabulous-rise-and-murderous-fall-of-club-culture-9780767917353","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}