"Lisa Pasold’s debut novel is as enticing as the lit-up Las Vegas strip and as satisfying as a winning hand at poker." -Kathryne Kouk, Winnipeg Free Press
"I cannot recommend the book enough. Poker, boxing, Las Vegas, those Depression-era details captured so well...what's not to love, I tell you? Nothing. It's all good. You ought to buy a copy, or steal one, or get it at the library, or go camp outside Lisa's house and buy a copy from her personally. Really, you should." - Craig Davidson
Craig interviewed me for The National Post & for THIS IS NOT A READING SERIES, which organized a poker & showgirl booklaunch for me at the Gladstone Hotel. Craig's a wonderful writer, plays a mean card game, and knows how to box, so I'm pretty chuffed that he recommends Rats of Las Vegas.
"the incredible experience of being told a story rather than reading a book...as if reading a fairy tale, you are pulled into Millard's world, and it is a world so compelling that you can't bring yourself to leave." - Kate Marlow, FREEFALL
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The book is hard-cover, 360 pages, and the cover designer, Relish Productions, was nominated for an award for the work.
"Millard Lacouvy, the first-person narrator and main protagonist of Lisa Pasold's engrossing first novel...is one of the feistiest young women in recent Canadian fiction... RATS OF LAS VEGAS is first and foremost a good yarn about a solitary woman asserting herself in a man's world--not through glamour or sex but through sheer wits and determination." - Dave Williamson, Prairie Fire