Children of Las Vegas

Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials, Photo Essays, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Children of Las Vegas by Timothy O'Grady, Unbound
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Timothy O'Grady ISBN: 9781783522514
Publisher: Unbound Publication: June 16, 2016
Imprint: Unbound Language: English
Author: Timothy O'Grady
ISBN: 9781783522514
Publisher: Unbound
Publication: June 16, 2016
Imprint: Unbound
Language: English

Visit a place where your accent is an aphrodisiac, invites a Las Vegas tourist board ad on the London Underground. Just the right amount of wrong, offers another from The Cosmopolitan Hotel. Clearly, it works. Over forty million people a year travel to Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24/7, with no moral debits. Start planning the vacation you won’t write home about. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Award-winning writer Timothy O’Grady lived in Vegas for two years. He finally began to understand it when he talked to people who had grown up there, the children of the card dealers and cocktail shakers, the jugglers and the dancers, young people who had been bearing witness to their strange city all their lives. One had her student loans and credit card limits stolen by her father. Another fled a sequence of exploiters until she found herself living in the storm drains under the casinos. There is the boy whose father entered him into a drinking contest when he was eight, the casino owner’s son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each tells their tale

O’Grady here renews his partnership with renowned photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pyke’s portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the city’s glittering façade.Children of Las Vegas shows us what we can expect to find when the global marketplace has found the addiction genes in us all. It is a book of broken dreams, but also of an extraordinary striving for transcendence.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Visit a place where your accent is an aphrodisiac, invites a Las Vegas tourist board ad on the London Underground. Just the right amount of wrong, offers another from The Cosmopolitan Hotel. Clearly, it works. Over forty million people a year travel to Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24/7, with no moral debits. Start planning the vacation you won’t write home about. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

Award-winning writer Timothy O’Grady lived in Vegas for two years. He finally began to understand it when he talked to people who had grown up there, the children of the card dealers and cocktail shakers, the jugglers and the dancers, young people who had been bearing witness to their strange city all their lives. One had her student loans and credit card limits stolen by her father. Another fled a sequence of exploiters until she found herself living in the storm drains under the casinos. There is the boy whose father entered him into a drinking contest when he was eight, the casino owner’s son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each tells their tale

O’Grady here renews his partnership with renowned photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pyke’s portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the city’s glittering façade.Children of Las Vegas shows us what we can expect to find when the global marketplace has found the addiction genes in us all. It is a book of broken dreams, but also of an extraordinary striving for transcendence.

More books from Unbound

Cover of the book The Backstreets of Purgatory by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book First Light by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Bone Lines by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Odette by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Tatterdemalion by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Crushed Mexican Spiders by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Lily Poole by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book A Mighty Boy by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Different Class by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Versailles by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Gibbous House by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Ex by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book Ireland’s Green Larder by Timothy O'Grady
Cover of the book America Über Alles by Timothy O'Grady
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy