Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape - Couverture rigide

MANSO

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0743200942 ISBN 13 : 9780743200943

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Manso Peter

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When you look back at its history, you can see a progression in Provincetown, things getting wilder and wilder, the outlaw element becoming the norm....
Provincetown, Cape Cod: This small Massachusetts enclave has long been home to pirates, commune-dwellers, artists, and other noble countrymen who value liberty over law -- from Norman Mailer and Tennessee Williams to John Waters, Robert Motherwell, and former congressman Gerry Studds. With one of the largest homosexual populations per capita of any town or city in the United States, and some of the highest beachfront real estate prices in the Northeast, Provincetown is a thriving tourist spot that attracts more than one million visitors each year. Here, acclaimed writer and longtime Ptown resident Peter Manso brings together all the celebrities and townsfolk, history and happenstance, and politics and gossip to offer an unparalleled account of this unconventional seaside society -- a place, in the words of Henry David Thoreau, where "one may stand...and put all of America behind him."

Revue de presse :

Alex Beam The Boston Globe Provocative...eloquently written [and] in-your-face.

Nicholas von Hoffman Columnist, New York Observer Social history and analysis...nicely concealed in hypnotically fascinating reading. Ptown's got everything: drama, love, crime, humor, real estate, nostalgia, art, celebrities, you name it.

Boston Herald A provocative look at cultural history and contemporary lifestyles.

The Provincetown Banner There are some terrific stories here, the ones we love to hear and to tell.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743200942
• ISBN 13: 9780743200943
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320