{"product_id":"vegas","title":"Vegas","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eVegas\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Gregory Dunne\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781961341326\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMcNally Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e304\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne's] grotesqueries aren't drug-induced, they're very real. His is the genuine Vegas.\" (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePanicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is \"a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined.\" The remarkable central characters are 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, the life of the narrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Gregory Dunne captures a low point in American culture and in one American life with rare vitality, honesty, and perception. Sad, powerful, wildly funny, \u003ci\u003eVegas\u003c\/i\u003e is like no memoir before or since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Vegas | John Gregory Dunne | Paperback | 9781961341326 | New | Memoir 1699621","offer_id":48165388157080,"sku":"1699621","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71KO9DtDNqL.jpg?v=1771921763","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/vegas","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}