![]() ![]() ![]() This Esquire magazine piece dubbed it “the best Las Vegas book you’ve never read”. In between sleeping and TV quiz shows he gets to know some of the occasionally wealthy but always degenerate desperate citizens: comic Jackie Kasey, who gets $10,000 a week but drives himself crazy with lack of fame and status games like “taking steam” with Frankie or Sammy or Cosby Artha the hooker who turned 1203 tricks with 1076 johns in five years, including 54 “multiples,” 24 S and 1 M and Buster Mano, the private dick, who traces straying conventioneering hubbies and hustles gambling debts.” Sounds more than promising.Ī “wonderful novel” according to ID5882060, despite its low sales and almost unknown status. ![]() According to a review in Kirkus: “In the middle of his thirty-seventh year and first nervous breakdown, reading obits of college pals in the alumni rag, the husband-author manque of Joan Didion rents an apartment in the town that’s always open. This long-out-of-print novel was the first from Dunne, aka Mr Joan Didion. Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne (1974) ![]()
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