Real Gone [Hardcover]

Jim Lewis (Author), Christopher Phillips (Author), Jack Pierson (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2, 1994

This tale of a crazy road trip pairs Pierson's seductive photographs with Lewis's free-floating reflections on the city as a magnet for high rollers and drifters of all stripes.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Attempting to combine color photos and story in a fashion that filters the road literature of Kerouac through the sensibilities of Jim Jarmusch and Generation X, Pierson and Lewis ( Sister ) have instead produced a helter-skelter non sequitur, a patchwork quilt of uninspired camera work and arty, airy observations about a journey to Las Vegas conveyed in a rambling style that's virtually incomprehensible. The story, such as it is, is structured as a letter and describes the authors' bargain-basement road trip from Hollywood to Las Vegas, mixing impressions of the journey with the saga of an ex-lawyer named Hoyt who built a famous house that was turned into a resort hotel after he courted a woman named Sarah who subsequently abandoned him. From there, the plot jumps to a sequence in which the two travelers are arrested for driving a stolen car, sprinkled with impressions of various oddballs they meet along the way. The photos seem designed to be avant garde in a style that's simultaneously ordinary and strange; but without a coherent story to support, there's little reason to give them a second glance.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Artspace Books; 1st edition (May 2, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963109529
• ISBN-13: 978-0963109521
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,522,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)