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Format: Häftad (Paperback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 256
Utgivningsdatum: 2015-03-03
Förlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Dimensioner: 201 x 132 x 25 mm
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ISBN: 9780345804334

Noble Hustle

Name: Noble Hustle
Price: 178.00 SEK
Availability: InStock
Author: Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9780345804334

Poker, Beef Jerky and Death

av Colson Whitehead

Häftad, Engelska, 2015-03-03

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground RailroadIn 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch-he'd never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, our humble narrator took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Hold'em. Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kid's drop-off and pickup at school. Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the event's antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet.An NPR Best Book of the Year

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