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Title: The Lucky (Western Literature Series) by H. Lee Barnes ISBN: 0-87417-539-9 Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Through Las Vegas Darkly
Comment: H. Lee Barnes has written a novel--at times engaging and at times disturbing but at all times interesting--about a boy's coming of age in 1960s Las Vegas. Peter Elkins, son of a woman infected by wanderlust, is taken in by a casino king, Willy Bobbins, who offers him a chance to take his place as the owner of the Lucky, a downtown gaming house. Peter, however, must deal with the vicious and chaotic elements of Vegas culture, as well as the vicious and chaotic members of Bobbins's family, in his pursuit to discover himself. Barnes skillfully blends together elements of Fitzgerald's _Gatsby_, Conrad's _Heart of Darkness_, Dickens's _Bleak House_ and _Great Expectations_, and the biblical story of Moses to give the story its scope and direction, and his attention to the details of the Las Vegas landscape--both inside and outside of the casinos--will delight those who are familiar with the city. Careful readers will also see Barnes borrow from his own Viet Nam short story "Tunnel Rat" to give measure to the chaos that dominates the story: if Viet Nam is Chaos, and Willy's Montana ranch is Heaven on Earth, then Las Vegas strikes an uneasy balance somewhere between. Peter Elkins also falls somewhere between--a good man who nevertheless commits questionable actions--and he finds a peaceful life only when he can extract himself from the extremes of the landscapes that have shaped him.
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Title: In the Shadow of the Strip: Las Vegas Stories (Western Literature Series) by Richard Logsdon, Todd Scott Moffett, Tina D. Eliopulos ISBN: 0874175496 Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories (Western Literature Series) by H. Lee Barnes, John Clark Pratt ISBN: 0874173469 Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Dummy Up and Deal: Inside the Culture of Casino Dealing by H. Lee Barnes, John L. Smith ISBN: 0874175062 Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Of Rats and Men: Oscar Goodman's Life from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas by John L. Smith ISBN: 0929712986 Publisher: Huntington Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas by Marc Cooper ISBN: 1560254904 Publisher: Nation Books Pub. Date: 10 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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