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Dream City

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In this unconventional tale of Las Vegas during the two delirious boom decades before the bust of the Great Recession, failed actor "C. D." Reinhart, who has launched a new career in hotel marketing, is gradually losing his moral and existential compass. Working on The Strip during an era when Sin City's population growth was outpacing any other place in America, C. D. climbs the industry ladder while modeling himself after a Pyramid Resorts top executive, Lance Sheperd. C. D.'s professional choices lead him down a tumultuous road, as Sheperd, a complex and, at times, visionary figure, pilots his ventures through the tangled wheeling and dealing of finance and corporate politics straight into catastrophe. As the story progresses, C. D. comes to understand how his personal losses and the losses of his cohort of hard driving executives on the make—especially the tragic life of his work partner, Greta Olsson, the only woman to break through into their male dominated...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18257372
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Year:
2024
Publisher:
University of Nevada Press
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781647791650
ISBN:
9781647791667, 9781647791650

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