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This is the Place
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Publish Date: Mar 17th, 1997
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.56in - 5.58in - 0.65in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780385485982
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
PETER ROCK grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the author of many novels, including Passersthrough, The Night Swimmers, My Abandonment, The Bewildered, The Ambidextrist, Carnival Wolves, and This Is the Place. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and recipient of a 2000 NEA Fellowship, he now lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches at Reed College.