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Whiteout

Lost in Aspen

Ted Conover

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English
Vintage Books
06 April 1993
The Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning authorof Newjack delivers an irreverent,poignant, and revealing meditation on the lives of the rich in Aspen, Colorado.

Here is a classic report on the sweet temptation of wealth and the vainglorious quest for paradise as they exist in Aspen, Colorado, featuring a ""cast of characters (that) includes such barn-size satirical targets as exclusive health clubs, over-the-hill drug dealers and movie stars and rock stars of wattages bright and dim"" (The New Republic).
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   235g
ISBN:   9780679741787
ISBN 10:   067974178X
Series:   Vintage Departures
Pages:   288
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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TED CONOVER is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.

Reviews for Whiteout: Lost in Aspen

"""A lucid, witty account that bristles with ironies."" —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review ""[A] cast of characters [that] includes such barn-size satirical targets as exclusive health clubs, over-the-hill drug dealers and movie stars and rock stars of wattages bright and dim."" —The New Republic"


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