Leaving Las Vegas
- ISBN-10
- 0802134459
- ISBN-13
- 9780802134455
- Series
- Leaving Las Vegas
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 189
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Author
- John O'Brien
Description
Describes the love affair between a prostitute and an alcoholic gambler who has come to Las Vegas to drink himself to death
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