Whiteout: Lost in Aspen - Hardcover

Conover, Ted

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394574699 ISBN 13: 9780394574691

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1991

Synopsis

Takes readers on a tour of Aspen, Colorado, exploring its conspicuous consumption, body worship, spiritual yearnings, billionaires, drugs, New Age parties, cultural life, and more

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From the Inside Flap:

poignant, and revealing, this meditation on the sweet temptation of wealth and the vainglorious quest for paradise as they exist in Aspen, Colorado, features 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).
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0394574699
• ISBN 13: 9780394574691
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 269