{"product_id":"book-liet","title":"Vegas","description":"\"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains mature themes.","brand":"Tantor","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49864179712304,"sku":"BDliet","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49864179745072,"sku":"ZEliet","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49864179777840,"sku":"ZMliet","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/liet-cover.jpg?v=1763046504","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-liet","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}