Leaving Las Vegas

This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City ).   John O’Brien’s debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas , is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction.   An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his