Social Disease - Softcover
Guy Huber, his wife Venice, and their spangled, be-furred, leather-swathed, neon-haired, sexually-ambiguous, nocturnal friends take to the downtown Manhattan club scene, lofts, boutiques, to a courtroom, and to a prison until Hollywood makes their escapades just a comedy
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Paul Rudnick, famous for Hollywood hits such as Addams Family Values and Jeffrey first found fame as a novelist. Social Disease, his 1986 comic masterpiece, has just been reissued and is as funny as it was a decade ago. Setting his book at the height of pre-AIDS Manhattan club life, Rudnick lampoons not only disco madness and Studio 54, but also the megalomania engendered by an out-of-control celebrity culture that promotes style over substance, money over morals. Like Evelyn Waugh 's lacerating Vile Bodies, Rudnick's Social Disease is a satire that defines our times even as it deflates our sense of self importance.
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A doorman at the fashionable Club de, Guy Huber is mistakenly thought to have kidnapped the fun-loving wives of a rich sheik, after which he ends up in a resort-like prison. PW praised Rudnick's "gifted eye" and "smooth, sentient style" but noted that this first novel is "light and insubstantial."
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0345330382
- ISBN 13 9780345330383
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages201
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Book Description Paper. 1st Paper Edition. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PAUL RUDNICK. Rudnick's 1st novel is a satire about the New York City club scene of the 1980's. Rudnick is also a playwright and screenwriter. Also includes an interview with him. Tiny black dot remainder mark to the bottom edge and very minute wear to the front cover. Vg. Book. Seller Inventory # 008172
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