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Players (2002, Paperback) 
Players (2002, Paperback)

 
Players (2002, Paperback)

Publisher: Running Pr Book Pub
Publication Date: 2002-12-30
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1560253800
ISBN-13: 9781560253808
Product ID: EPID2259923
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Publication Date:2002-12-30
Editor:Geno Zanetti, Stephen Hyde

Size
Length:397 pages
Height:9.0 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:20.0 oz

Publisher's Note
...The characters the reader meets in Players--chess grand masters, poolroom hustlers, or street-hardened practitioners of the short con--are all alike propelled by the ecstasy of risk....In fact, as the reader hooks up with David Mamet in the poker room and meets Damon Runyon’s Bookie Bob, Saul Bellow’s immortal Yellow Kid, and learns from Herbert Asbury about the antics of Izzy and Moe, and from David Maurer about the discreet charm of the confidence man, Ricky Jay on the story of Dice, Walter Tevis on Fast Eddie Felson and Minnesota Fats, and Walter Benjamin on the seductions of nineteenth-century gambling dens, high lives and low will merge and the world of gambler and con-artist will blur. Selected writings by A. J. Liebling, Jorge Luis Borges, Nelson Algren, Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches, Harlan Ellison, Roald Dahl, and many others are featured.

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"Some predictable choices, then, but generally an idiosyncratic and enjoyable mix."
Kirkus Reviews (08/15/2002)

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