- Paperback: 264 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (16 Aug 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1451660987
- ISBN-13: 978-1451660982
- Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 14 x 21 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,048,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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How is Saturday night different now than in the past? Susan Orlean traveled the country to find out. She gives an eye-opening view of unusual pastimes and passions as Saturday night becomes a metaphor for the vitality of the American spirit. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
How is Saturday night different now than in the past? Susan Orlean traveled the country to find out. She gives an eye-opening view of unusual pastimes and passions as Saturday night becomes a metaphor for the vitality of the American spirit. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Susan Orlean invites us into the brief lives of numerous citizens who are experiencing their typical Saturday nights. One will learn about the history of the weekend, experience rituals and enjoy the company of many interesting individuals. She writes with a comfortable energy and the reader will certainly contemplate the weekend with a new reverence. Visit cruisers, diners, dieters and polka dancers. Understand their fascinations, their lonliness, their time to relax, their time to look forward to bestial pursuits. I really enjyed this book and her style is accessible and refreshing.
Format:Hardcover
Susan Orlean invites us into the brief lives of numerous citizens who are experiencing their typical Saturday nights. One will learn about the history of the weekend, experience rituals and enjoy the company of many interesting individuals. She writes with a comfortable energy and the reader will certainly contemplate the weekend with a new reverence. Visit cruisers, diners, dieters and polka dancers. Understand their fascinations, their lonliness, their time to relax, their time to look forward to bestial pursuits. I really enjoyed this book and her style is accessible and refreshing.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Good work of Journalism, Literature
14 Dec 2000
Format:Hardcover
Susan Orlean is a master of taking the would-be normal, humdrum existence of your average person and elevating that person into a character that is both memorable and worth reading. She did it in the Orchid Thief and she does it in Saturday Night, a book composed of chapters each dedicated to how different people spend their average Saturday night. Among the selections are people cruising Main Street, going to dinner, dancing, college students partying and folks staying home. This book explores the history of Saturday night as "the" night that people look forward to and Orlean offers her own take on it. If anything, the book hinges on the reader's curiosity about what others are doing on any given weekend evening. If you're not curious, or not willing to sit through other people's seemingly routine experiences, this book may not be for you. If you are at all curious about the world around you, and what people do to blow off steam, buy this book today.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Exquisite Voyeurism: An eloquent glance into a common night
28 May 1999
Format:Hardcover
Susan Orlean invites us into the brief lives of numerous citizens who are experiencing their typical Saturday nights. One will learn about the history of the weekend, experience rituals and enjoy the company of many interesting individuals. She writes with a comfortable energy and the reader will certainly contemplate the weekend with a new reverence. Visit cruisers, diners, dieters and polka dancers. Understand their fascinations, their lonliness, their time to relax, their time to look forward to bestial pursuits. I really enjyed this book and her style is accessible and refreshing.
Saturday Night
23 Mar 2008
Format:Hardcover
Susan Orlean's, Saturday Night is a glance into the lives of any average American on Saturday nights. Within a few years of research, Orlean explores a variety of nightly activities, including visits to fraternity parties, polka dancers, dieting clubs, etc. Orlean has excellent writing techniques that seem to draw in readers, regardless of age. Orlean also tends to research thoroughly, writing about every age group, from the high school crowd, all the way up to people in their senior years. The book fulfills its goal in touching almost every group of Americans and leaves the reader satisfied.
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