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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season

Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season

Dunne, John Gregory
Dunne, Griffin
Dunne, Griffin

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ISBN13: 9798228598522
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: Jul 22 2025
Language: English
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 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. Contains mature themes.

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