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Author:

Diofebi, Dario, 1987- author.

Title:

Paradise, Nevada : (this town wasn't built on winners) / Dario Diofebi.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Poker--Fiction.
Bombings--Fiction.
Casinos--Las Vegas--Las Vegas--Fiction.
Las Vegas (Nev.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Black humor.

Summary:

"On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class suburbs of Rome, Italy; and Lindsay, a Mormon journalist for the Las Vegas Sun who dreams of a literary career. By chance and by design, they find themselves caught up in backroom schemes for personal and political power, and are thrown into the deep end of an even bigger fight for the soul of the paradoxical town."--Publisher.

ISBN:

1635576202
9781635576207

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1243067432

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