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| | Amazon.com: The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards: Books: Whit Stillman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The premise is preciously, playfully postmodern: chronically unemployed lounge-chair philosopher Jimmy Steinway is "commissioned" by Castle Rock Entertainment to do a novelization of the film, itself based on the activities of Steinway and his circle in the early 1980s. |
 | | Claiming that the real story started at a party in the Hamptons (not depicted in the movie) where he met the lovely Alice Kinnon, Jimmy recalls how the subtle charms of the boyfriendless social failure stirred a rivalry among Jimmy and four of his Harvard classmates"and the bitter jealousy of her roommate, Charlotte. |
 | | 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. |
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