It’s not often that two touted novels about Las Vegas go head to head on the nation’s bookshelves. Esquire began the drumbeat for Charles Bock’s Beautiful Children—a novel of wayward youth in Sin City—a few months back, with Entertainment Weekly adding a glowing review. Also just out is Joe McGinniss Jr.’s The Delivery Man—a novel of wayward youth in Sin City—which earned a warm review in the Sunday New York Times Book Review.
