The Last Days Of Disco (A Novel): With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards (An Account of the Real Story Upon The Movie Was Based, by Jimmy Steinway, the 'Dancing Adman')

The Story

During the last months of the disco era, in the very early 1980s, a popular dance club becomes the center of nightlife for a group of young people new to Manhattan--'boyfriendless social failure' Alice; her treacherous friend from Hampshire College, Charlotte; their roommate, Holly; & the five Harvard guys the women meet in the city: Jimmy, the 'Dancing Ad Man,' who hangs on to his job by getting clients into the club; handsome corporate lawyer & part-time environmentalist, Tom; Des, the club's allegedly bisexual underboss, who seems to specialize in women; Dan, an editorial assistant nostalgic for the intellectual ferment of the 1950s; & Josh, a neophyte prosecutor & disco enthusiast who suspects that the club is not being run according to conventionally accepted accounting principles. The Last Days of Disco is an affectionate, ironic portrait of an era--and a subgroup of not-quite innocents--from a movie-maker as witty on paper as he is on film.