Author: JAMES MCMANUS
Title: Positively Fifth Street
Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 422. Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science"and eros"of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las VegasJames McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper`s to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament`s prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether.McManus risks his entire Harper`s advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself"the players, the hand-to-hand combat, and his own unlikely progress in it.Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America`s card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man`s effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called ť"śPleistocene exigenciesť"ť"the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts. ISBN: 9780374236489. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780374236489
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Title: Positively Fifth Street
Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 422. Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science"and eros"of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las VegasJames McManus was sent to Las Vegas by Harper`s to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament`s prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether.McManus risks his entire Harper`s advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself"the players, the hand-to-hand combat, and his own unlikely progress in it.Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America`s card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man`s effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called ť"śPleistocene exigenciesť"ť"the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts. ISBN: 9780374236489. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780374236489
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1663282
- Book number: 1663282
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