Whiteout: Lost in Aspen

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The Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Awardwinning authorof Newjack delivers an irreverent,poignant, and revealing meditation on the lives of the rich in Aspen, Colorado.

Here is a classic report on the sweet temptation of wealth and the vainglorious quest for paradise as they exist in Aspen, Colorado, featuring a "cast of characters (that) includes such barn-size satirical targets as exclusive health clubs, over-the-hill drug dealers and movie stars and rock stars of wattages bright and dim" (The New Republic).

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"A lucid, witty account that bristles with ironies."San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"[A] cast of characters [that] includes such barn-size satirical targets as exclusive health clubs, over-the-hill drug dealers and movie stars and rock stars of wattages bright and dim."The New Republic

Author Bio

TED CONOVER is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with Americas Hoboes, and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. His writing has appeared inthe New York Times Magazine,the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker,and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.