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| Saturday Night |  | Author: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Fawcett
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1097377
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 044922001X
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.48120973
EAN: 9780449220016
ASIN: 044922001X
Publication Date: July 30, 1991
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 Saturday Night March 23, 2008
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.
Good work of Journalism, Literature December 15, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Exquisite Voyeurism: An eloquent glance into a common night May 28, 1999
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.
Exquisite Voyeurism: An eloquent glance into a common night May 28, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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