In the Hamptons: My Fifty Years with Farmers, Fishermen, Artists, Billionaires, and Celebrities Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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 areaâ??s popular free newspaper, Danâ??s Papers, Dan Rattiner, has been covering the daily triumphs, community intrigues, and larger-than-life personalities for nearly fifty years. A colorful insiderâ??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 thereâ??as well as a Jewish outsider amid the WASP contingentâ??Rattiner both revels in and is rattled by all he witnesses and records in one of the worldâ??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.Read More

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  • 0307382958
  • 9780307382955
  • Dan Rattiner
  • 6 May 2008
  • Harmony Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 368
  • 1
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