Leaving Las Vegas (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
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, 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.
Leaving Las Vegas tells a powerful story of unconditional love between two disenfranchised souls who connect for a fleeting moment.
Customer Reviews
Amazing
The film is excellent. This book is excellent and devastating. It is a man in the last stages of alcoholism. Its not summer reading by any means. You wont look at alcoholism the same way. Or you may recognize it in yourself or a family/friend member by this book. This is more than a book.