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As their fortunes change, Larry and his band are plunged headfirst into an adventure that lures them into mob-run nightclubs, Las Vegas showrooms and backrooms, famous Hollywood night spots and recording studios, celebrity managers, and passionate romance--and the sacrifices it demands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's the West Coast in the mid-Sixties: a historic era of tectonic cultural, political, musical, and sexual upheaval--and the draft. The band scrambles to overcome, or at least endure, every obstacle in its path. But in the tumultuous nights the band inhabits, where things and people are too easily found and lost, everything Larry thought he knew about life, love, and himself is being challenged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003cem\u003eNIGHT PEOPLE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eDunlap's\u003c\/strong\u003e sense of transcendence is similar to the sensation Keith Richards describes in his memoir, 'Life: ' \u003cem\u003e...you leave the planet for a while...\u003c\/em\u003e' Reliving his rock and roll years in his wonderful memoir, \u003cstrong\u003eNIGHT PEOPLE\u003c\/strong\u003e,' \u003cstrong\u003eLarry Dunlap\u003c\/strong\u003e, must have left the planet for a while, too.\" I loved it, and highly recommend it. \u003cstrong\u003e — Kiana Davenport, \u003cem\u003eThe Spy Lover, Shark Dialogues\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whether or not you remember the swift intoxicating music of that era or the seismic shift of mores that burst from the free-love movement, \u003cstrong\u003e[NIGHT PEOPLE]\u003c\/strong\u003e captures the beat of that misty time when the country suffered “a growing thirst for individual freedom, a desire to escape from an ever-darkening shadow of war, and a national hangover following the public murder of a young and popular president.” \u003cstrong\u003e— C.D. 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