{"product_id":"9781961341326","title":"Vegas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 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 trackin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dunne, John Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56005104927098,"sku":"9781961341326","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781961341326.jpg?v=1760025493","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9781961341326","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}