Download or read book A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity written by Whitney Otto and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a novel about drifting and reckless youth looking for a more permanent form of happiness, Whitney Otto transports us to San Francisco, a magical, fog-shrouded city suffused with possibility and restless energy. Her characters congregate night after night at a North Beach bar called the Youki Singe Tea Room, their lives conjoined by bonds of friendship and shared experience, and by the poignant realization that true ecstasy may be found only in surrendering oneself to someone or something else. A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity explores the intricacies, the pain, and the rapture of human connection.