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It's been a while since I read this one. I learned about Dunne from my obsession with his wife, Joan Didion. We had a copy at the LA Public Library when I worked there, so I checked it out. Dunne is a great writer and he writes profoundly about his time in Vegas. For me, it captured the wonderful darkness of the connection between LA and Vegas in the 70s. There is a self-aware self-destructiveness to it that spoke strongly to me when I read it. This is definitely work checking out if you're inte
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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne (Random House, 1974)
On day John Gregory Dunne woke up to the realization that he was terribly unhappy. Married to the brilliant writer Joan Didion, they lived in Los Angeles, wrote for the movies, published books, adopted a daughter named Quintana Roo, and drank and smoked heavily. What's new about all that? To avoid a breakdown once, John Gregory fled to Vegas, where he nursed his life back to health I suppose, though fleeing to Vegas to so ...more
On day John Gregory Dunne woke up to the realization that he was terribly unhappy. Married to the brilliant writer Joan Didion, they lived in Los Angeles, wrote for the movies, published books, adopted a daughter named Quintana Roo, and drank and smoked heavily. What's new about all that? To avoid a breakdown once, John Gregory fled to Vegas, where he nursed his life back to health I suppose, though fleeing to Vegas to so ...more
I'm not 100% sure why I found this pulpy, sometimes vile, novel so damn compelling, but I could not put it down.
As seen on Flashlight Worthy. Don't mess with Didion!
Not one of the best books I ever read; not even in the top sixty percent. Cute (if kitschy) vegas-type characters, but a total absence of direction or plot. Sort of a waste of time.
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John Gregory Dunne was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.
He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and was a younger brother of author Dominick Dunne. He suffered from a severe stutter and took up writing to express himself. Eventually he learned to speak normally by observing others. He graduated from Princeton University in 1954 and worked as a journalist for Time magazine. He m ...more
He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and was a younger brother of author Dominick Dunne. He suffered from a severe stutter and took up writing to express himself. Eventually he learned to speak normally by observing others. He graduated from Princeton University in 1954 and worked as a journalist for Time magazine. He m ...more
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