Greatest Gambling Stories Ever Told: Thirty One Tales of Risk and Reward - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592283187 ISBN 13: 9781592283187

Publisher: UNKNO, 2004

Synopsis

Thirty-one amusing and enlightening tales of those who beat the odds, and those who failed trying.

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From the Back Cover:

Whether your vice be a tame game of bingo or a visit to the local horse track, a friendly game of poker with friends or a tense match of billiards in a smoky parlor, chances are that you, at one time or another, have gambled on something. And nowhere is man’s fascination with gambling more clearly evident than in the massive profits amassed each year by illegal bookmakers and the lavish casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and abroad.
In The Greatest Gambling Stories Ever Told, editor Paul Lyons has compiled thirty-one of the finest writings, both fact and realistic fiction, ever penned about our collective gambling vice, which has been a part of our history and culture since ancient times.
With contributions from such renowned writers as Fyodor Dostoevsky, David Mamet, and Charles Bukowski, as well as some rare, lesser-known gems of the genre from Dan McGoorty, Michael Konik, and Jane Smiley. The Greatest Gambling Stories Ever Told is an entertaining and enlightening collection sure to appeal to anyone who has ever picked up a cue, cards, dice, or racing form, and to anyone out there looking to feel a little bit of “juice.”

About the Author:

Paul Lyons, an English professor at the University of Hawaii, has written about gambling in three novels, Table Legs, Going for Broke, and Button Man (page 10), and is the editor of The Quotable Gambler. He enjoys a friendly poker game and is a former winner of the Hawaii State Backgammon Tournament.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592283187
• ISBN 13: 9781592283187
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Lyons Paul