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Children of Las Vegas: True Stories about Growing up in the World´s Playground
Timothy O´grady
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Description for Children of Las Vegas: True Stories about Growing up in the World´s Playground
Hardback. Thirty-seven million people visit Las Vegas every year. It's a city that offers to fulfil all your desires, without any repercussions. But what happens to the people who have to grow up there? This book tells ten of their stories: tales of overdoses, desert shoot-outs, suicides, casinos, and broken dreams. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; BTP; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 334.
Thirty-seven million people visit Las Vegas every year. It's a city that offers to fulfil all your desires, without any repercussions. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... right? But what happens to the people who have to grow up there? Children of Las Vegas tells ten of their stories, recorded by award-winning author Timothy O'Grady: tales of overdoses, desert shoot-outs, suicides, casinos, desert air and broken dreams. They include the son of a casino owner whose father gambled their fortune away and died broke and alone; a mother of five whose partner kidnapped her children ... Read more
Thirty-seven million people visit Las Vegas every year. It's a city that offers to fulfil all your desires, without any repercussions. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... right? But what happens to the people who have to grow up there? Children of Las Vegas tells ten of their stories, recorded by award-winning author Timothy O'Grady: tales of overdoses, desert shoot-outs, suicides, casinos, desert air and broken dreams. They include the son of a casino owner whose father gambled their fortune away and died broke and alone; a mother of five whose partner kidnapped her children ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Random House UK
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783522507
SKU
V9781783522507
Shipping Time
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About Timothy O´grady
Timothy O'Grady was born in Chicago and has lived in Ireland, London, Spain and Poland. He was in Las Vegas after receiving a fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute there and stayed on for another year to teach. He has written three works of non-fiction: Curious Journey; On Golf; and, most recently, Divine Magnetic Lands, an account of a return ... Read more
Reviews for Children of Las Vegas: True Stories about Growing up in the World´s Playground
It gripped me, moved me, appalled me, astonished me, enlightened me, profoundly upset me, amazed me (resilience!), [and] drove me to read on and on.
Nick Drake, award-winning poet.
Nick Drake, award-winning poet.