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For Richer, For Poorer Victoria Coren

For Richer, For Poorer By Victoria Coren

For Richer, For Poorer by Victoria Coren


$15.49
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

The confessions of a player...

For Richer, For Poorer Summary

For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker by Victoria Coren

Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure? This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. It is a memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. It might also teach you how to win a million . . .

For Richer, For Poorer Reviews

A book so rich in detail, so full of laughter, that you feel as if the coolest member of your family has just let you in on a secret so delicious you will savour it for ever * * The Times * *
Vivid . . . Unflinchingly honest . . . A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards * * Elle * *
Superb * * Guardian * *
Fresh, funny and moving. Coren writes insightfully about love, obsession, depression and illness - and poker, obviously. This is a wonderful book, worthy of comparison with the best * * Literary Review * *
[An] honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging * * Financial Times * *
Absorbing * * Daily Telegraph * *
Vicky Coren...is funny, beautiful, clever and writes like an angel. * * The Lady Magazine * *
Not only the best book about poker you are ever likely to read, but an outstanding memoir, lucid and moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, never less than gripping and, quite simply, the best book I have read this year. -- Cary Gee * * Tribune * *

About Victoria Coren

Victoria Coren is a writer, broadcaster and poker player from London. She writes a topical column in The Observer, and this is her third book. She has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup on Channel 4 and series of general interest on BBC2, BBC Four and BBC Radio 4. Coren is a member of Team PokerStars Pro, with lifetime winnings of $1.5 million.

Additional information

GOR002592686
9781847672933
1847672930
For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker by Victoria Coren
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Canongate Books Ltd
2010-06-30
352
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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