Bar Mitzvah disco: the music may have stopped, but the party's never over

by Roger Bennett

Hardcover, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

305.8924073

Collection

Publication

Crown Archetype (2005), 256 pages

Description

The Music May Have Stopped, but the Party’s Never Over. Bar Mitzvah Disco. Everyone's Invited Pick up your table card and come be our guest on this journey back to a time when style, music, and lust went hand in hand with a Day-Glo necklace, a pair of Z Cavaricci jeans, and Vuarnet shades. In this parallel universe, tall girls slow-danced with short boys at arm’s length, suburban break-dance pioneers vied with Lionel Richie fanatics for dance-floor space, Aunt Edna came ready to mount an assault on the dessert buffet in her best lime-green polyester pantsuit, and the phrase “the higher the hair, the closer to God” took on a whole new meaning. With special appearances from: AJ Jacobs, 99 red balloons, Ben Lee, the California Raisins, a well-intentioned Burt Reynolds impersonator, Jessi Klein, Joel Stein, DJ Squeak E. Clean, members of Foreigner (circa the Agent Provocateur tour), Sarah Silverman, OJ Simpson, Noah Tepperberg, Wendy Spero, the cast ofBreakin’, Mark Ronson, Steve Fortgang and southern Florida’s number one Bar Mitzvah band Bar Mitzvah Discois an irresistible journey, two parts Fantasy Island to one part Vegas, rife with gorgeous girls, piles of cash, and ungracious thank-you notes presented straight from the source.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member johnemersonsfoot
Surprisingly interesting for someone with no connection to the subject matter. Or at least I'd have thought so on first picking it up. In the end, it's a story of coming of age in a very odd time and place.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

256 p.; 7.48 inches

ISBN

1400080444 / 9781400080441

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