{"product_id":"evenings-empire-bill-flanagan-9781439148464","title":"Evening's Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE YEAR IS 1967. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn England, and around the world, rock music is exploding--the Beatles have gone psychedelic, the Stones are singing \"Ruby Tuesday,\" and the summer of love is approaching. For Jack Flynn, a newly minted young solicitor at a conservative firm, the rock world is of little interest--until he is asked to handle the legal affairs of Emerson Cutler, the seductive front man for an up-and-coming group of British boys with a sound that could take them all the way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThus begins Jack Flynn's career with the Ravons, a forty-year journey through London in the sixties, Los Angeles in the seventies, New York in the eighties, into Eastern Europe, Africa, and across America, as Flynn tries to manage his clients through the highs of stardom, the has-been doldrums, sellouts, reunions, drug busts, bad marriages, good affairs, and all the temptations, triumphs, and vanities that complicate the businesses of music and friendship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning the decades and their shifting ideologies, from the wild abandon of the sixties to the cold realities of the twenty-first century, \u003ci\u003eEvening's Empire \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with surprising, sharply funny, and perceptive riffs on fame, culture, and world events. A firsthand observer and remarkable storyteller, author Bill Flanagan has created an epic of rock-and-roll history that is also the life story of a generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Flanagan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439148465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439148464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.52w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2010 pg. 24","brand":"Bill Flanagan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052235935999,"sku":"9781439148464","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_271bbe1d-90ff-4cf7-ae5f-6e2ee0d7a05e.jpg?v=1723555731","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/evenings-empire-bill-flanagan-9781439148464","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}