What happens when a wandering Jew and his long-time friend meet at a strip club on Thanksgiving day? Award-winning NPR commentator and performer Dayvid Figler's Grope is the story of Finn, a man who has let a lifetime of decadent Las Vegas culture catch up to him. His friend Harvey meets him at the Original Eden Gentlemen's Club, forgoing a holiday with their families for a night of drinking and lap dances. There they meet Beth (dancer name: Cookie), someone that shares Finn's loneliness and hope for renewal. Dayvid Figler's story about one night in Vagas comically dances on that fine line between sexual perversity and spiritual pilgrimage.
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"Neurotic and disturbing, darkly funny and surprisingly hopeful." --Michelle Tea
"Taking on his hometown with effortless humor and real soul, Figler makes Vegas more mythical than ever." --Beth Lisick
"Figler does for strip joints what Hemingway did for bullfighting. A remarkable story." --Hal Sirowitz
"Taking on his hometown with effortless humor and real soul, Figler makes Vegas more mythical than ever." --Beth Lisick
"Figler does for strip joints what Hemingway did for bullfighting. A remarkable story." --Hal Sirowitz
About the Author
Dayvid Figler is the author of the chapbook Merry Christmas, Jewboy (Kapow!) and the youngest retired municipal court judge in Las Vegas history. He has performed at many national festivals including Bumbershoot, South by Southwest, and Lollapalooza. His humor commentaries appear on NPR's All Things Considered.
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Real Las Vegas Fiction,
By VegasLover "Irv" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Grope: A Fiction (Paperback)
Authors who understand the true significance of the oddest city in America are few and far between. Hunter S. Thompson took a good crack at it, but like many who are fascinated with Las Vegas, he packed up his typewriter and left. It would have been nice if he stayed around for the next thirty years and gave updates, but alas, his mind wandered away like so many stray bullets out of a madman's gun. Most Vegas writers focus on readable, but not engaging biographies or nonfiction overviews. So name a great Las Vegas fiction writer? I don't know if Dayvid Figler is great, but he sure is my favorite. This story is a gift that explains so much.
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