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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375501819
ISBN-13
9780375501814
eBay Product ID (ePID)
773954
Product Key Features
Book Title
24/7 : Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Topic
United States / West / Mountain (Az, Co, Id, Mt, NM, Nv, Ut, WY), Customs & Traditions
Genre
Travel, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.5 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-029309
Reviews
From 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas The story of Las Vegas is less about hotel rooms and gambling than it is about American mythology. Las Vegas is our mirror out in the desert, all shiny like a mirage should be, reflecting our basest urges. What type of city did we build in the middle of a desert, a metropolis with no reason, beyond our willpower and playful imagination, to exist? And what does it say about us that this monument to American optimism and technological arrogance in the Mojave Desert has become the largest American city born in the twentieth century and its fastest-growing one going into the twenty-first?
Synopsis
In April 1998, Andrés Martinez withdrew fifty thousand dollars from the bank--most of the advance he was paid for this book--and boarded a plane to the fastest-growing metropolis in America: Las Vegas. Armed with a wad of traveler's checks, Martinez spent a month within the belly of the beast.24/7is the round-the-clock chronicle of his wild ride through America's neon Gomorrah. Every chapter--each is named after one of the fabled hotels where Martinez holed up with his bankroll--is a fly-on-the-wall view of a different aspect of Las Vegas. From the sumptuous Bellagio to the off-Strip grind joints that cater to local addicts,24/7evokes a city that is both human and larger than life. We are introduced to the people who work in, pass through, and thrive on Vegas: a minister who shines shoes at a topless joint, a school superintendent who must build a new facility every twenty-eight days, and a water czar who covets her neighbors' share of the Colorado River. Martinez hobnobs with conventioneers, befriends a professional sports gambler who raised six kids while losing eight million dollars, and dines with a retired Israeli "security officer" whose lifelong ambition was to move to Vegas and become a blackjack guru. Martinez wanders into the Liberace Museum, attends Easter Sunday mass in the Strip cathedral of the world's most rapidly expanding Catholic archdiocese, and ponders the meaning of it all with Vegas's leading historians. Interwoven throughout are dispatches from the green-felt front. Martinez laces his blood with adrenaline in an exhilarating all-night session of baccarat with some well-heeled Chinese and idles over slots with an abandoned bride. Above all, he goes mano a mano at blackjack--learning the ropes from his dealer, gathering tricks of the trade from his breakfast companions, and experiencing the angst of Dostoevsky and the sheer ecstasy of the triumphal gambler. Thought-provoking, hilarious, personal, and journalistically brilliant,24/7is a rush of a read, a head-on exploration of a unique American landscape., In April 1998, Andres Martinez withdrew fifty thousand dollars from the bank--most of the advance he was paid for this book--and boarded a plane to the fastest-growing metropolis in America: Las Vegas. Armed with a wad of traveler's checks, Martinez spent a month within the belly of the beast. 24/7 is the round-the-clock chronicle of his wild ride through America's neon Gomorrah. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
F849.L35M366 1999
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