In the Hamptons: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities

In the Hamptons: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities - Paperback

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In the Hamptons: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities - Paperback

In the Hamptons: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities - Paperback

by Dan Rattiner
$22.00
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Book Overview

by Dan Rattiner (Author)

Long before the Hamptons became famous for its posh parties, paparazzi, and glitterati, it was a sleepy backwater of fishing villages and potato farms, literary luminaries and local eccentrics. As the editor and publisher of the area's popular free newspaper, Dan's Papers, Dan Rattiner, has been covering the daily triumphs, community intrigues, and larger-than-life personalities for nearly fifty years.

A colorful insider's account of life, love, scandal, and celebrity, In the Hamptons is an intimate portrait of a place and the people who formed and transformed it, from former residents like Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning, colorful locals like bar owner Bobby Van and shark fisherman Frank Mundus (who the character Quinn from Jaws was based on), and literary figures like John Steinbeck and Truman Capote, to present-day stars like Bianca Jagger and Billy Joel.

An insider who lived there--as well as a Jewish outsider amid the WASP contingent--Rattiner both revels in and is rattled by all he witnesses and records in one of the world's most famous places. With dry wit and genuine affection, he shares a story of the Hamptons that few know, one defined by the artists, painters, fishermen, farmers, dreamers, hangers-on, celebrities, and billionaires who live and play there.

Author Biography

DAN RATTINER is an award-winning writer and the editor and publisher of Dan's Papers, the free newspaper he founded in 1960 when he was twenty years old. He lives on Long Island, New York.

www.danrattiner.com
Number of Pages: 368
Dimensions: 0.84 x 8.02 x 5.22 IN
Publication Date: May 04, 2010
ISBN9780307382962
Author Dan Rattiner
PublisherCrown Publishing Group (NY)
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2010
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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