Description
Borchard’s account offers a graphic, disturbing, and profoundly moving picture of life on Las Vegas’s streets, depicting the strategies that homeless men employ so as to continue to exist, from the search for a secure place to sleep at night to the challenges of finding food, maintaining personal hygiene, and finding an acceptable place to rest right through a long day in the street.
That such misery and desperation exist in the middle of Las Vegas’s hedonistic tourist economy and booming urban development is a cruel irony, in step with the writer, and it threatens the city’s future as a prime tourist destination. The book will be of interest to social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, politicians, and all those concerned about changing the misery in the street.