A richly textured, sharply observant picaresque novel from one of Europe's greatest authors writing today. When two Belgian buddies head for Las Vegas, their friends and relatives back home contend with very nasty business that sends damaging shockwaves across the Atlantic.
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A richly textured, sharply observant picaresque novel from one of Europe's greatest authors writing today. When two Belgian buddies head for Las Vegas, their friends and relatives back home contend with very nasty business that sends damaging shockwaves across the Atlantic.
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New York. 1997. December 1997. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670867462. Translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. 211 pages. hardcover. Cover: Martin Ogolter/Ellen von Unwerth. keywords: Literature Translated Dutch Belgium. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Jake and Michel are two rogues with respective hearts of gold. Their desire for booze and betting entitles them to front-row stools at the Unicorn, the local tavern in their Belgian village. But one morning they are overcome by more urgent desires, needs that can't be fulfilled in the Unicorn. And so they head for the promised land of silk and money: Las Vegas. It doesn't take long before that animal called desire rears its ugly head on both sides of the Atlantic, resulting in horrible acts-both damning, and sending shock waves across two worlds. Two forms of desire go afoul of each other, revealing the dark menace lurking behind the facade of glitter and glamour in the New World, of friendship and innocence in the Old World. Commenting on the turmoil at the Unicorn and on Jake and Michel's hell-raising in the gambling casinos and nightclubs is the ghost of larger-than-life Rickabone: card shark, layabout, wayfarer, ne'er-do-well, barroom sage. inventory #24689.
