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Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season he dreamed of being "an"The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne's] grotesqueries aren't drug induced, they're very real. His is the genuine Vegas." (Esquire) "In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada." So begins John Gregory Dunne's neglected classic of first person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, confession and reportage. Panicked by his own