"A zesty, intriguing collection."--Tama Janowitz, Author of A CANNIBAL IN NEW YORK CITY. The Nevada of popular mythology is a land of extremes: the sensational image of the casinos & bordellos contrast dramatically with the desert wastes of the Great Basin. But scratch through the neon surface of Nevada, & the reality is far more interesting. There are people here. People who live lives of hope & passion, people who struggle, despair, triumph. And where people go, stories spring up behind them like wildflowers after a rare desert rain. The eleven tales in NEVADA expose the verities in this state of contradiction as only true stories can. The unusual characters are real. The uncommon events happened as described. Jim Sloan brings a reporter's love of fact & genuine compassion to these delightful accounts, but it is his natural gift of storytelling that makes NEVADA truly memorable. A book as unique as the places & people it describes. "'Tis strange--but true; for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."--Lord Byron, DON JUAN.