{"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":"\u003cp\u003eOutrageous parties. Brazen drug use. Fantastical costumes. Celebrities. Wannabes. Gender-bending club kids. Pulse-pounding beats. Sinful orgies. Botched police raids. Depraved criminals. Murder. \u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Broadway Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780767917353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.18w x 0.75d","brand":"Frank Owen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36642601828508,"sku":"9780767917353","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a9dfe9b0-725d-4758-b58d-201eb949680f.jpg?v=1603855158","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/clubland-the-fabulous-rise-and-murderous-fall-of-club-culture-9780767917353","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}