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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374183394
ISBN: 0374183392
Label: Farrar Straus Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 339
Publication Date: 2000-08
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Sales Rank: 594941
Studio: Farrar Straus Giroux
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Opposites do attract--but is that really such a good idea?
Whit Stillman has won international acclaim as one of the wittiest, most original filmmakers of his generation--"the Balzac of the ironic class, the Dickens of people with too much inner life." in the words of Stephen Hunter in The Washington Post. Now, twisting the film novelization genre in an entirely new direction, Stillman has produced something equally fresh and surprising; a novel based on the characters and events touched on in The Last Days of Disco--the movie The New York Times called "deft, funny, and improbably touching"--with results that are even defter, funnier, and more improbably poignant.
Jimmy Steinway, the "Dancing Adman" of The Last Days of Disco (and, we later discover, a frustrated, desk-drawer novelist), gets his lucky break when Castle Rock Entertainment, unable to find anyone else to write a novelization of the movie, reluctantly gives the assignment to him. Jimmy struggles to bring to light the true origins of the story at Kate Preston's party in Sag Harbor, and the fast, then slow, then fast again unfolding of his love for Alice Kinnon, the boyfriendless social failure from Hampshire College whose quiet charm detonated a bitter rivalry between him and four of his Harvard classmates. (He also sets the record straight about the beautiful, passionate, painfully candid Charlotte Pingree.)
Set primarily in Manhattan in the early 1980s--but spanning two continents and two decades--The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards redresses the wrongs done these characters and this period, while helping to ameliorate the comic novel shortage in the world today.
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Loved the movie, but this novelization adds nothing new and really lacks the charm that the actors bring to the dialogue. In fact, it's an almost word-for-word adaptation. Go buy the movie instead. It's a much better value.
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Without the music (which is described throughout), this book is rather lame. A novelization of the movie, written as though someone asked Jimmmy Steinway (the ad guy who kept trying to get his clients into "The Club") to write it years after he wrote the movie script. You're left wondering: did this really happen or not? Why did Stillman feel the need to write this book?
Although it does explain certain character's motivations, which weren't really clear in the movie, it kind of goes ... Read More
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Let me start off by saying that I have always been a fan of Whit Stillman's films (and am sad that there are only 3) so when I saw that he had written this novel I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. I ordered it through interlibrary loan and started reading it only a few days after watching the film, The Last Days of Disco, for the third time.
At first I thought the book was going to be exactly like the movie (some scenes and lines are exactly the same, as if Stillman was transcribing the script) ... Read More
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I love Whit Stillman. I miss Whit Stillman. We haven't heard a cinematic peep from this fine director, among the best of the 90's, since he moved to Paris. Apparently the City of Light, or at least its ridiculous rents, inspired Whit to write and here we have the results.
Briefly, the literary conceit is that Jimmy the Dancing Ad Man from the film is drafted to do a novelization of the movie. Omnipresent in the film, he is largely a background character, but becomes the point-of-view for ... Read More
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An unusual novelization of a film after its theatrical release, that also happens to be written by its director/writer. By telling the story of the movie from the point of view of one of its characters -- who knows about the movie, its script, and various other background materials -- The Last Days of Disco, with Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards actually improves upon what was an excellent, enjoyable film to begin with. But don't be concerned that this is some trite post-modern, deconstructionist gobbledygook, ... Read More
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