Desire - Hardcover

Claus, Hugo; Knecht, Stacey

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ISBN 10: 0670867462 ISBN 13: 9780670867462

Publisher: Viking, 1997

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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.

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Lovable rogues Jake and Michel leave their friends at "The Unicorn," their favorite local tavern in Belgium, to embark on a picaresque odyssey of booze and gambling to make their fortunes amid the glitter of Las Vegas casinos.

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