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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... read more
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- Sera: Main character; prostitute in Las Vegas
- Ben: Add a description of this character.
- Gamal Fathi
- Mary: Next door neighbor at some point in Sera's life.
- Jo
- Jim
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It is the kind of bar where the well-to-do folks of LA go to pick up - or be picked up.
Authors & Contributors edit
- John O'Brien (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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