Children of Las Vegas: True stories about growing up in the world's playground b

Description: Children of Las Vegas by Timothy O'Grady, Steve Pyke What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... but what happens to the people who grow up there? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 wont write home about. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.Award-winning writer Timothy OGrady 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 owners son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each tells their own tale.OGrady here renews his partnership with renowned photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pykes portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the citys glittering facade. 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. Author Biography Timothy OGrady was born in Chicago and has lived in Ireland, London, Spain and Poland. He went to Las Vegas after receiving a fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute and stayed on for another year to teach. That is when he met the children of Las Vegas whose stories appear in this book. He is the author of three novels, Motherland, I Could Read the Sky and Light, and three works of non-fiction, Curious Journey, On Golf and, most recently, Divine Magnetic Lands. Children of Las Vegas is his second collaboration with photographer Steve Pyke.Steve Pyke is considered one of the leading portrait photographers in the world. His work, including the series Philosophers and Astronauts, has been exhibited worldwide. He has published nine books, and for the past forty years he has worked consistently on a series collecting the Faces of Our Time. In 2004 Steve received the MBE in the Queens New Year Honours list for his services to the Arts, and in 2006 he was made a Friend of the Royal Photographic Society. He lives in New Orleans. Review These are brave, honest, articulate stories, the children wise beyond their years . . . A modern fairy tale Martina Evans, Irish Times Promotional What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... But what happens to the people who grow up there? Long Description 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 wont write home about. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Award-winning writer Timothy OGrady 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 owners son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each tells their own tale. OGrady here renews his partnership with renowned photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pykes portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the citys glittering fa Review Quote It gripped me, moved me, appalled me, astonished me, enlightened me, profoundly upset me, amazed me (resilience!), drove me to read on and on. Award-Winning Poet Nick Drake Description for Sales People Timothy OGrady is the author of award-winning novels such as Motherland and I Could Read the Sky, as well as several acclaimed works of non-fiction, most recently Divine Magnetic Lands: A Journey in America.This book features portraits by Steve Pyke, widely considered one of the worlds leading portrait photographers. A former staff photographer for The New Yorker, his work is held in permanent collections from Londons National Portrait Gallery to the New York Public Library.For fans of Super Casino by Pete Earley, In Nevada by David Thomson and About a Mountain by John DAgata. Details ISBN1800181388 Author Steve Pyke Short Title Children of Las Vegas Pages 176 Publisher Unbound Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1800181388 ISBN-13 9781800181380 Format Paperback DEWEY 979.31350330922 Imprint Unbound Illustrations B&W photographs throughout Publication Date 2022-07-07 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-07-07 UK Release Date 2022-07-07 Subtitle True stories about growing up in the worlds playground Photographer Steve Pyke Alternative 9781783522507 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-11-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161557209;

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