Product Description

When Party Monster was first published?? it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid?? strikingly fresh?? and outrageous depiction of the hedonistic world of the 90s New York City club kids?? for whom nothing was too outr??including murder. Nominated for the Edgar Award for best true-crime book of the year?? it also marked the debut of an audaciously talented writer?? James St. James?? who himself had been a club kid and close friend and confidant of Michael Alig?? the young man convicted of killing the drug dealer known as Angel. This is the inside story of life in clubs like The Tunnel and The Limelight and hanging with leading lights like Keith Haring and RuPaul and the drugs?? sex?? music?? and mayhem that existed during the heyday of New York City club culture.

Amazon.com Review

In 1996?? New York City drug dealer and "gel Melendez was bludgeoned?? injected with Drano?? dismembered?? and tossed into the river. James St. James was there when the killer confessed?? but before that?? there were the clubs?? the parties?? the drugs?? and the many fabulous (and some not so fabulous) outfits. Disco Bloodbath is "nte" St. James's story?? equal parts confession and attempt at closure. This is no square-jawed detective's account of the investigation of the crime; St. James is a drug-addled clubster who wears a wedding dress out on the town and invokes Judy Garland as he talks about the scene in which he and Melendez immersed themselves before the murder. His story?? despite its gruesome subject matter and frequent?? shocking lucidity?? has a chatty and anecdotal quality that's compelling?? endearing?? and unrelentingly human. --Lisa Higgins

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