The Biggest Game in Town by A Alvarez
Takes us inside the World Poker Tour and captures the skewed psyches and peculiar rites of professional poker players who descend every year for the World Series of Poker.
'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 most readers sitting on the edge of their seats' Sunday Times; 'A new classic on gambling...it's quite brilliant' Time Out; 'This is a magnificent book. Beyond the straights and full houses, Alvarez has written about people who are extremely good at what they do, and about America' San Francisco Chronicle
Al Alvarez is a poet, novelist, literary critic, anthologist, and author of many highly praised non-fiction books on topics ranging from suicide, divorce, and dreams - THE SAVAGE GOD, LIFE AFTER MARRIAGE, NIGHT - to poker, North Sea oil, and mountaineering - THE BIGGEST GAME IN TOWN, OFFSHORE, FEEDING THE RAT. His most recent books are an autobiography, WHERE DID IT ALL GO RIGHT? And POKER: BETS, BLUFFS AND BAD BEATS. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780747562993 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747562997 |
| Title | The Biggest Game in Town |
| Author | A Alvarez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2003-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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