| Night Class: A Downtown Memoir Contributor(s): Corona, Victor (Author) |
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ISBN: 1619029391 ISBN-13: 9781619029392 Publisher: Soft Skull OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Social Science | Popular Culture - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists |
| Dewey: 974.71 |
| LCCN: 2017940028 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.75 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The playground of the rich and the beautiful, downtown New York's nightlife spectacles and power of self-invention incubated pop icons from Andy Warhol to Lady Gaga. NYU sociologist Victor P. Corona sought a new education, where night classes held in galleries, nightclubs, bars, apartments, stoops, and all-night diners taught him about love, loss, and the living possibilities of identity. Transforming himself from dowdy professor to glitzy clubgoer, Victor immerses himself among downtown's dazzling tribes of artists and performers hungry for fame. Night Class: A Downtown Memoir investigates the glamour of New York nightlife. In interviews and outings with clubland revelers and influencers, including Party Monster and convicted killer Michael Alig, Night Class exposes downtown's perilous trappings of drugs, ambition, and power. From closeted, undocumented Mexican boy to Ivy League graduate to nightlife writer, Corona shares in Night Class the thrill and tragedy of downtown and how dramatically identities can change. |