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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne, Stephanie Danler

• Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season
• John Gregory Dunne, Stephanie Danler
• Page: 304
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781961341333
• Publisher: McNally Editions

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“The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” (Esquire) “In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.” So begins John Gregory Dunne’s neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, confession and reportage. Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife, Joan Didion, and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. His plan: to write a book about the city he describes as a “prison of yesterdays.” In his desperation, he connects with a remarkable trio of characters: Artha, a student at cosmetology college by day, a sex worker by night; Buster Mano, a private detective whose specialty is tracking down errant husbands; and Jackie Kasey, a lounge comic who opens for Elvis at $10,000 a night and wonders why he is still only a “semi-name.” Pimps, bail bondsmen, parking-lot moguls, used-car tycoons, ex-jockeys, and women who look as if they had “spent a lifetime meeting guys in Vegas or Miami Beach or Louisville for the Derby”—these are the people who wander through the lives of Artha, Buster, and Jackie; and, for a dark season, their world becomes Dunne’s. Vegas captures a low point in American culture and in one American life with rare vitality, honesty, and perception. Sad, powerful, wildly funny, Vegas is like no memoir before or since.

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"The best book about Sin City ever written . . Dunne's] grotesqueries aren't drug-induced, they're very real. His is the genuine Vegas.
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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season (1974) describes the narrator's nervous breakdown in a story about three colourful inhabitants of Las Vegas, Nevada.
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