The Real Las Vegas: Life Beyond the Strip Hardcover - 1999
by Eric Gran; David Littlejohn (Editor); Eric Gran (Photographer)
Take a look beyond the bright lights to see an ever-growing human population and big business in the Las Vegas area. In-depth interviews and photo-biography reveal an unusual but quite metropolitan city that is more than just tourists. 32 illustrations.
From the rear cover
"A team of fifteen reporters led by David Littlejohn, together with prize-winning photojournalist Eric Gran, studied the "real" Las Vegas - the city beyond the Strip and Downtown - for the better part of a year. They talked to teenagers (whose suicide and dropout rates frighten parents), senior citizens (many of whom spend their days playing bingo and the slots), Mexican immigrants (who build the new houses and clean the hotels), homeless people and angry blacks, as well as local police, active Christians, city officials, and prostitutes. They looked into the local churches, the powerful labor unions, pawn shops, the real estate boom, defiant ranchers to the north, and dire predictions that the city is about to run out of water."--BOOK JACKET. "In this close-up investigation of the real lives being led in America's most tourist-jammed, gambling-driven city, readers will discover a Las Vegas very different from the one they may have seen or imagined."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Title The Real Las Vegas: Life Beyond the Strip
- Author Eric Gran; David Littlejohn (Editor); Eric Gran (Photographer)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
- Date 1999-10-28
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780195130706 / 0195130707
- Weight 1.51 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.57 x 6.45 x 1.12 in (24.31 x 16.38 x 2.84 cm)
- Reading level 1230
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Nevada
- Library of Congress subjects Las Vegas (Nev.) - Economic conditions, Las Vegas (Nev.) - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-43830
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.313
Media reviews
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 214
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/1999, Page 1203
- Library Journal, 10/15/1999, Page 90
- Publishers Weekly, 08/09/1999, Page 330
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