John Gregory Dunne

Vegas (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of a Dark Season

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McNally Editions
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781961341333
• Artikelnr.: 72260626

Autorenporträt

John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003) began his writing career as a reporter for TIME magazine. He published five novels, a volume of criticism, and seven works of narrative nonfiction, including The Studio and Monster: Living Off the Big Screen, both about the movie business. With his wife, Joan Didion, Dunne collaborated on a number of screenplays, including Panic in Needle Park, Play It As It Lays, and A Star Is Born

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