An edition of This is the place (1997)

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1st Anchor books ed.
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An edition of This is the place (1997)

This is the place

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Sixty-four-feet tall and made of metal, the neon giant Wendover Will stands in front of the Stateline casino in Wendover, Nevada, facing east. The sign under him reads "This Is the Place." Over a hundred miles away in Utah, across the salt flats, stands the statue of Brigham Young, atop his monument, also proclaiming "This Is the Place.".

In this sinister, heartbreaking story, an aged and lonely blackjack dealer who lives in Wendover becomes obsessed with a nineteen-year-old Mormon girl from Bountiful, Utah. This Is the Place is a tale of love, perhaps doomed, told by an endearing misanthrope who may be delusional, but who has managed to transform his manias into an alternative understanding that lies somewhere between Wendover Will's depravity and Brigham Young's morality.

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Anchor Books
Language
English
Pages
245

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1997, Anchor Books
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Edition Notes

"An Anchor paperback original"--T.p. verso.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3568.O327 T48 1997, PS3568.O327T48 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
245 p. ;
Number of pages
245

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL995021M
Internet Archive
thisisplace00rock
ISBN 10
0385485980
LCCN
96033606
OCLC/WorldCat
35262296
Library Thing
206382
Goodreads
373769

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