num_pages: 238
description: The macabre of American Psycho meets the glamour of Warhol's Diaries in James St James' powerful true-life portrait of charismatic and flamboyant Michael Alig - King of the Club Kids.Set in post Warhol '80s New York, Disco Bloodbath opens its doors to a kitsch-carnival existence where people are stars for no reason in their own cartoon world of crazed hedonism, decadent drug taking, glittering parties and unimaginable debauchery. Flirting with fetishism and androgyny, theirs is a reality where the beautiful, bizarre, sequinned and freakish revel with tea, scones and heroin.But the charm of their magical kingdom soon spiralled into something more sinister. In their 'surreality', a world without rules, would getting away with murder prove to be the ultimate thrill?
language: English
title: Disco Bloodbath
titlecomplete: Disco Bloodbath
genres: Biography, Mystery, Queer, LGBT, Memoir, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Pop Culture, Crime, True Crime
ratings_count: 8948
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: 0340739533