Leaving Las Vegas

· Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
4.5
15 reviews
eBook
210
Pages
Eligible

About this eBook

This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City).
 
John O’Brien’s debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction.
 
An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge of his hopeless life. On the Strip, he picks up Sera, a prostitute, in what might have become another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead, their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as they form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
15 reviews
Andrew Brooke
4 November 2014
I bought this book on Nov 4, 2014. It only had 54 pages. I contacted tech support and they agreed it was a problem in how the book was uploaded. They had no idea long it would take to fix. They have issued me a refund.
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Jamaal Barnett
9 March 2014
Maybe because I seen the movie first, i love the book for the story of the characters i fell in love with in the book.
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Tony Tiger
6 August 2015
Superb performance by Nicholas Cage. ..from a fan of his
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About the author

John O'Brien is a cartoonist whose work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications. He is also the illustrator of many children's picture books. He lives in New Jersey.

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