Dream City (2024) by Douglas Unger

Dream City (2024)
A novel by Douglas Unger

In this unconventional tale of Las Vegas during the two delirious boom decades before the bust of the Great Recession, failed actor ¡°C. D.¡± Reinhart, who has launched a new career in hotel marketing, is gradually losing his moral and existential compass. Working on The Strip during an era when Sin City¡¯s population growth was outpacing any other place in America, C. D. climbs the industry ladder while modeling himself after a Pyramid Resorts top executive, Lance Sheperd. C. D.¡¯s professional choices lead him down a tumultuous road, as Sheperd, a complex and, at times, visionary figure, pilots his ventures through the tangled wheeling and dealing of finance and corporate politics straight into catastrophe.

As the story progresses, C. D. comes to understand how his personal losses and the losses of his cohort of hard driving executives on the make¡ªespecially the tragic life of his work partner, Greta Olsson, the only woman to break through into their male dominated world¡ªare a result of the make-believe environment he has helped to create, a world where representation replaces reality. Hoping to piece together his faltering marriage and family relationships, C. D. must find a new path as he struggles to hold onto his dreams.

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