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2010, ISBN: 0307716228
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ISBN: 9780307716224
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So begins Notes from the Night, Taylor Plimpton’s account of a night out in New York City. Passionately engaged and endlessly curious, Plimpton is part participant, part observer, a student and uniquely apt chronicler of human behavior—particularly at its most absurd.
Accompanied by his best friend Zoo and a tight-knit band of other mischief-makers, and fueled by drinks, drugs and big dreams, Plimpton journeys from one Manhattan hotspot to the next with boundless energy and an eye for the dark, often comic realities of club culture. Exploring the myriad pleasures, mysteries and pitfalls of that elusive world, Notes from the Night is guide to a place ― and a state of mind ― that has never been mapped. With savvy advice and point-on commentary, the book ushers the reader through the velvet ropes to experience New York’s most exclusive nightclubs. Surrounded by celebrities, models, and the best of friends, the reader will feel the rush of the party , the wonderful, heart-thumping panic of approaching a beautiful woman and the often forgotten joy of simply having a good time. By relentlessly pursuing the truth of his own experience, Plimpton uncovers the sexy, and seamy, lining of the city that never sleeps, and in so doing exposes what at heart is sought by all those who leave their home well after dark — the singular thrill of being young and free and full of desire in a world where anything can happen.
Plimpton is both an unlikely clubber and a likely seeker—a little bumbling and somewhat aloof, often naïve and unusually erudite. He’s an insider who remembers what it was like to be an outsider, and from this unique perspective he invites you to experience the splendor, sorrow and possibility of New York after hours. Lyrically written and vividly described, this brisk, surprising and confident debut will stay with you l, Jonathan Miles Reviews Notes from the Night
Jonathan Miles is a former columnist for the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times and the author of a novel, Dear American Airlines, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2008 by the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Amazon.com. His next novel, Want Not, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Notes to the Night might have been a more accurate title, because this slim, wistful memoir is, quite plainly, a love letter. To whom? The Manhattan nightlife, or more precisely a certain subspecies of that nightlife--to the style-obsessed, drug-dizzied, bass-thudded, celebutante-spangled, all-night parties that occur beyond the velvet ropes of an ever-shifting array of downtown nightclubs. In the literary world (which Taylor, as the son of the late Paris Review founder and highbrow bon vivant George Plimpton, was born smack into the white-hot center of), this scene isn’t sacred or even very familiar terrain. (Jay McInerney mined it in the ‘80s, with his novel Bright Lights, Big City, but with far more angst than affection.) Dive bars, Irish pubs, fusty old saloons, joints with depth and shaggy gravitas: these are the typical recipients of boozy mash notes from writers, rather than laser-lit clubs where conversation tends to be limited to a shouted sighting of, say, Natalie Portman. Yet Notes from the Night melts the distinctions by suggesting that, down deep, we nocturnal creatures are all after the same thing: a utopian idyll we might call the Ultimate Good Time. Plimpton (with whom, full disclosure, I’ve happily thrown back tequila shots) funnels a hundred observations, riffs, anecdotes, and lyrical meditations into an account of a single night (and morning) spent roaming New York City’s clubland. We’re beside him as he selects his clothes for the night, meets up with his ultrasmooth, Svengali-ish pal Zoo, eases past the velvet ropes, snakes his way onto the dancefloor, sees romance spark then disappear, and finally confronts the sunrise. And while Plimpton nails the au courant details of the scene, what he’s ultimately describing is a state of being, or the pursuit thereof. Notes from the Night is less a guide to afterhours Manhattan than an interior travelogue--a record of a young man taking stock of his existence, and an unabashed valentine to the places, people and substances that define (or at least enhance) that existence.
(Photo © Leah Overstreet)Informations détaillées sur le livre - Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark
EAN (ISBN-13): 9780307716224
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0307716228
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Date de parution: 2010
Editeur: BROADWAY BOOKS
190 Pages
Poids: 0,349 kg
Langue: eng/Englisch
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ISBN/EAN: 9780307716224
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0-307-71622-8, 978-0-307-71622-4
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Auteur du livre: plimpton
Titre du livre: night life, life after dark, after the dark
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