Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas
by John O'Brien

Leaving Las Vegas
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Author: John O'Brien
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-11-22
ISBN: 0802134459
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Grove Press

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Book Review: Elizabeth Shue - the only reason to see the movie -
Summary: 1 Stars

Love story? Hardly. This is a horrible, seedy novel glamorizing prostitution and alcoholism. Gosh, aren't protitutes and alcoholics so wonderful and clever? Graphic, grotesque sex, language, violence and totally unbelievable characters make it a sad, depressing story with no redeeming qualities for the characters or the novel. Will you be depressed after reading it - yes. Does that make it romantic or wonderful or even worth reading? No.

I enjoyed the movie which was saved by the good looks and acting of Elizabeth Shue - at least in the movie one feels a smidgeon of sympathy for the characters as unrealistic as they are - sorry but alcoholics on the verge of death don't look like Cage. Only Hollywood could glamorize such tripe.

One has to wonder about the author's state of mind who would write such trashy crap - and then again it's really no wonder to hear what ultimately became of him.

Summary of Leaving Las Vegas

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.

The wrenching but compelling story of unconditional love between two lost and disenfranchised souls. Sera, a prostitute, and Ben, an alcoholic, stumble together and discover in each other a respite from their unforgiving lives.

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