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In the spirit of Alex Garland's The Beach, Decca Aitkenhead travels around the world in search of the perfect E and the perfect clubbing experience, 10 years after her first clubbing days in Manchester. Her journey links downtown Detroit with the townships of Cape Town, and beatnik San Francisco with Thailand's beach parties. While searching for the perfect pill, unintended encounters with dubious characters sometimes reveal she has travelled far from transcendence. While in Cape Town she meets the most notorious South African gangster and finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun in the hands of a dealer who is neither sober nor sane.
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Decca Aitkenhead is a journalist, writer and broadcaster. A columnist for the Guardian and London Evening Standard, she is a host of What the Papers Say and has written widely for magazines and journals.
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'In her hands, the differences in clubbing culture between Detroit, Ko Samui and Cape Town turn out to be a surprisingly serious subject. Her observations are spiky with attitude...the writing is passionate...an intelligent and absorbing book.' Observer 'Fantastically good...if you've ever been clubbing this book will induce massive rushes of nostalgia.' Sunday Telegraph 'Original, well written, effortlessly readable..."The Promised Land", like its subject-matter, is very easy to like, with occasional shivers of delight and a distant forboding of melancholy.' Financial Times 'Her prose is spiky and intelligent from start to finish. Her writing is as humorous as it is acute.' Jockey Slut
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- PublisherHarpercollins Pub Ltd
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1841153389
- ISBN 13 9781841153384
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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