My Week at the Blue Angel: And Other Stories from the Storm Drains, Strip Clubs, and Trailer Parks of Las Vegas

by Matthew O'Brien, Bill Hughes (Photographer)

Overview

A rendezvous with a strip club owner who starts a church based on the writings of Thomas Paine. A savage journey into the heart of Hunter S. Thompson's Las Vegas, with the Good Doctor as guide. A Lord-of-the-Rings-like adventure into the city's underground flood channels. A seven-day stay at a seedy motel on East Fremont Street. The stories in My Week at the Blue Angel aren't about Steve Wynn or Cirque du Soleil, and they aren't set in Caesar's Palace or a picture-perfect 2,000 seat showroom. They're about prostitutes, ex-cons, and the homeless, and they're set under Caesar's Palace and in trailer parks and weekly motels. In this creative nonfiction collection, Matthew O'Brien and veteran photographer Bill Hughes show a side of the city rarely seen; a side of Las Vegas many locals and visitors are curious about, but few ever explore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935396239
Publisher:	Huntington Press
Publication date:	11/24/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	227
Sales rank:	935,808
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Matthew O'Brien is the author of Beneath the Neon, a creative nonfiction book that chronicles his adventures in the city's underground flood channels. His nonfiction has been published in several magazines and newspapers, including The Las Vegas Review-Journal, High Country News, the Tucson Weekly, the Reno News & Review, and the Denver Post. His fiction and poetry have been published in Red Rock Review, In the Shadow of the Strip (a collection of short stories published by the University of Nevada Press), and other literary journals. Matthew was born in Washington,D.C., and raised in the Atlanta area. He has lived in Las Vegas since 1997.

Editorial Reviews

"There have been literally hundreds of non-fiction books written about Las Vegas. Exactly none of them are like this one...O'Brien writes not only with a reporter's eagle eye for detail, but with obvious curiosity and compassion for his subject. No detail is lost in his description of his exploration of the city's underground water drainage system, and the drifting souls who now call these dark and dangerous tunnels home"

Seven Tenths Blog - Neil Parry