Mario Puzo inside Las Vegas

Selger boka Mario Puzo inside Las Vegas av Mario Puzo

Fargefoto av John Launois

Svart-hvitt foto av Michael Abramson og Susan Fowler-Gallager

Utgitt av Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York

1. utgave 2.opplag 1977

ISBN 0-448-12462-9 Heftet 253 sider

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""Should I go to heaven, give me no haloed angels riding show-white clouds, no, not even the sultry houris of the Moslems. Give me rather a vaulting red-walled casino with bright lights, bring on horned devils as dealers. Let there be a Pit Boss in the Sky who will give me unlimited credit. And if there is a merciful God in our Universe he will decree that the Player have for all eternity, an Edge against the House" --Mario Puzo"

Fra Kirkus reviews:

"When Don Puzo moves in on Las Vegas, he's not striving for art but something like that emerges. LAS VEGAS is heavy with color photos by John Launois that are equal to neon, sometimes gimmicky (dice flying into the camera) and no whit personal; the many black-and-white photos, by Michael Abramson and Susan Fowler-Gallagher, try for sadder or richer insights while working under the handicap of NO CAMERA PERMITTED—Las Vegas protects anonymity, losers, and tax-dodgers. What will help the book move out of the stores and off the shelves are the many gems of storytelling with which Puzo studs his big picture and reveals the backgrounds of girls, personnel, and gamblers; and his myth-popping ironic tone should catch the public fancy. The text is both a natural history of the gambling instinct through the ages and a celebration of its great flowering in Nevada. Puzo himself is a "degenerate gambler" of great ripeness. He's cheated since childhood. Now that he really has some money to lose, he has abandoned gambling in fear of palpable ruin, knowing solidly that he will lose everything. But he believes Vegas operates honestly; the casinos are not armbreaking debt collectors; the town is kept clean in every possible way (no pimps, no streetwalkers). Even readers put off by Puzo's admiringly clear-eyed love for the meretricious will find themselves turning one page more."

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