{"product_id":"children-of-las-vegas","title":"Children of Las Vegas","description":"\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"79hbpf-65qwzp-damgqv-a45irf\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003eTrue stories about growing up in the world’s playground\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"79hbpf-65qwzp-damgqv-a45irf\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003e‘This is a special thing, faultless’ Mark Knopfler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOver forty million people a year travel to Las Vegas, more than to Mecca. It is a global celebrity, an improbable oasis, a place offering bank-breaking fortunes and instant gratification, 24\/7, with no moral debits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAward-winning writer Timothy O’Grady lived in Vegas for two years. He finally began to understand it when he talked to people who had grown up there, the children of the card dealers and cocktail shakers, the jugglers and the dancers – young people who had borne witness to this strange city all their lives. One had her student loans and credit card limits stolen by her father. Another fled a sequence of exploiters until she found herself living in the storm drains under the casinos. There was the boy whose father entered him into a drinking contest when he was eight, the casino owner’s son, the erudite contortionist turned stripper. Each told their own tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eChildren of Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e, O’Grady renews his partnership with photographer Steve Pyke. Through short essays, Pyke’s portraits and ten witness testimonies, he pierces the city’s glittering façade to reveal the darker reality that lies beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘These are brave, honest, articulate stories, the children wise beyond their years. A modern fairy tale’ \u003cb\u003eMartina Evans, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePaperback: 176pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Wilton Square (November 2025)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e9781789651867\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilton Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58627801317760,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/files\/81N9tZF7sxL._SL1500.jpg?v=1785754353","url":"https:\/\/www.eye-books.com\/products\/children-of-las-vegas","provider":"Eye Books Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}