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Bezig met laden... Literary Las Vegas: The Best Writing about America's Most Fabulous City (editie 1995)door Mike Tronnes (Redacteur)
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Literary Las Vegas brings together the best writings from this neon outpost in the desert. Ranging from the hilarious to the tragic, these pieces provide what Nick Tosches calls a "Baedecker to the bizarre, a Virgil in shades, not only to the holy city but to the off-the-rack soul that we, one nation under Frankie's toup, so strangely and fatally share." Incisive, entertaining, and highly readable,Literary Las Vegas creates a unique anecdotal history about this one-of-a-kind place. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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A couple of pieces are weak. There is one that is a transcript of an NPR presentation, and it just doesn’t work. And the selection from “How I Got Cultured: a Nevada Memoir by Phyllis Barber is good, but (at least for this selection) has little that makes it uniquely Vegas. But, overall, this is a very strong collection (including, selections from books that are good enough I want to search out the books.) The only other real drawback is you get a little tired of reading the same references and histories (outside of essays specifically on the subjects, you get tired of the Bugsy Seagal and atom bomb test references.) Another interesting point – the book was put out in 95, and there are some recent contributions. But the large proportion of submissions are 50’s and 60’s. Which raises the question (one actually kind of raised in Searching for Sin City), in spite of all its continued garishness, has Las Vegas become so normal that we are taking its bizarreness for granted?
I still think it is an incredibly strange place. And it may be that with the other strangeness in the world, it is harder for the press agents in Vegas to get the publicity. But this book will help remind you of what Vegas was, and why it will never be like anyplace else. ( )