Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it, a powerful tale of hard luck and hard drinking and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family,
Leaving Las Vegas
β Scribed by O'Brien, John
- Book ID
- 107105380
- Publisher
- Perseus Books Group
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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