The Biggest Game in Town

The Biggest Game in Town

Alvarez, Alfred
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Since its first publication twenty years ago, The Biggest Game in Town has become a sought-after cult classic. Acclaimed writer and critic Al Alvarez delves into the murky and compelling world of high-stakes Vegas poker, where 'the next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing'. Uncovering an exotic underground rich in ambiance and eccentricity, The Biggest Game in Town is a real one of a kind, deftly capturing the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker. It's a world that seems almost too surprising and bizarre to be true. 'A cool, precise, sharply witty, vivid evocation of a place and people, their appearances, behaviour and speech..Mr Alvarez is a shrewd analyst of the psychology of gamblers and a cleverly selective recorder of their bizarre talk with which, directly and indirectly, they reveal their secure grasp of unreality and their insane courage' Sunday Telegraph 'It will have...

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Anno:
2009
Casa editrice:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
192
ISBN 10:
1408806630
ISBN 13:
9781408806630
File:
MOBI , 717 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2009
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