David Thomson - In Nevada
| Schrijver: | David Thomson |
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| Titel: | In Nevada |
| ISBN: | 9780679454861 |
| Uitgever: | A.A. Knopf |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 1999, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 330p |
| Prijs: | € 11,50 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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\"At once examining and experiencing Nevada, Thomson finds its people, its landscape, and the unexpected questions it inspires equally provocative. He shows us the historical Nevada - a classic Wild West, attracting Spanish missionaries, Mormons, uprooted Native Americans, explorers, and silver miners - and the contemporary influx of cultists, druggies, survivalists, and fortune hunters whose quests lead directly to the gaming table.\" \"We see Nevada as a place of no-holds-barred experimentation, both social (gambling, prostitution, easy divorce, no taxes) and scientific (nuclear testing and storage of nuclear waste). We see suburbanites rubbing shoulders with sybarites; the natural beauty of Lake Tahoe, shadowed by the financial edifice of tourism; criminals, entertainers, and hotel impresarios sharing dreams of glory (and the memory of Bugsy Siegel and Frank Sinatra).\" \"In Nevada is a revelation of the gambler's mix of hope and anxiety, of the isolation and closeness, the beauty and banality, the fact and fancy, at the heart of the state - and the state of mind - of Nevada.\"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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