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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780307382962
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 a nd play there.
From the Hardcover edition.
“[R]efreshing as a dip in the ocean at Main Beach….Rattiner,
longtime publisher of the locally beloved weekly newspaper Dan’s
Papers, provides a beach-chair view of New York’s storied swath of
spot-lit sand in his new memoir.” –USA Today
“Rattiner’s tales have the flavor of oral history, the passing
along of stories from friend to friend….In these narratives, the
evidence of a life well-lived on a well-carved shore, Rattiner
bottles the spirit of a rural enclave turned glamorous destination.
In a characteristic tale, the author joins with a determined
Giorgina Reid to arrest the crumbling of the Montauk cliff face,
thus saving the iconically rugged and glorious lighthouse. Rattiner
does the same in this treasury, preserving the myth and mystery of
the shoreline, making sure memory erodes not, and that the light
stays always on.”
—The Hampton Sheet
”Whether Rattiner is writing about well-known people or local
notables, he presents his material in entertaining fashion, holding
the readers’ interest. His unusual vantage point enables him to
trace a half-century of changes ‘In The Hamptons.'”
—Jewish Journal
“As publisher of the Montauk Pioneer in the early 1960s, which
branched into the longtime Hampton free newspaper, Dan’s Papers,
Rattiner knows his territory and shares a collection of charming
early memories of the people among whom he lived and worked. Most
of the recollections are from the 1960s, when the author, a Harvard
graduate student in his 20s, having been introduced to Montauk when
his father moved the family there to take over White’s Pharmacy in
1956, runs the press largely by himself, borrowing a thousand
dollars from local banker Merton Tyndall. While knocking
door-to-door to sell ad pages and drum up stories, he meets the
remarkable seasonal denizens of the Hamptons, such as the lovely
daughter of Harrison Tweed III, Babette; the drinkers at Jungle
Pete’s, tightlipped about their dead crony Jackson Pollock; artist
Balcomb Greene; the sun-bathing lady proprietors of the Memory
Motel; reclusive John Steinbeck; and the real-life shark hunter
Frank Mundus. As the Hamptons change from sleepy beaches to
celebrity enclaves, the likable Rattiner boasts (modestly) about
refusing an interview with then nobody Richard Nixon and playing
baseball with notables such as George Plimpton and Bill
Clinton.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Dan Rattiner has been chronicling the people and events of the
Hamptons for as long as I’ve been going there (since the sixties).
If anyone wanted some insight into what made this area such an
interesting place, all they’d need was a copy of In the Hamptons.
It’s as close to rubbing elbows as you can get. Enjoy!”
—Billy Joel
“If a guy says it happened in the Hamptons, and Dan Rattiner
doesn’t know about it, it didn’t. Welcome to the high stool at the
bar in the Memory Motel.”
—Tom Wolfe
“Dan Rattiner, a first-rate observer of life, has been observing
the life of the Hamptons for nearly fifty years. In the Hamptons,
the result of all that clear-eyed observation, gives us every facet
of the place—the strange and ridiculous, the artistic, the funny,
the lovable and beautiful. Fifty years from now when people ask,
‘What were the Hamptons?’ they will need only to pick up this rich,
sparkling book.”
—Roger Rosenblatt, author of Lapham Rising
“A great read! Rattiner has done a terrific job with Dan’s
Papers, and his book, In the Hamptons, is as colorful and
engrossing as you would expect. He describes the coming-of-age of
the Hamptons with insight and affection.”
—Donald J. Trump
“Wonderful reading….If I write here that I cannot imagine a
chronicle more inclusive and revealing, fascinating and objective,
yet for the greater part affectionate, I am not piling it on too
thick. This book is damn good work.”
—Edward Albee
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