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McManus, James Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker
Farrar Straus & Giroux 2003 0374236488 / 9780374236489 Hard Cover Near-Fine Near-Fine
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. Illustrated with photos. 422 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Price inside dustcover: $26.00 - In the spring of 2000. Harper's Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker -- in particular, the mush-rooming 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 outre it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether. But when McManus sets foot in town, the lure of the tables is too strong: he proceeds to risk his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual experience at the table (he tells his skeptical wife) can he capture the hair-raising subtleties of the kind of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself -- the players, the hands, 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, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies" -- the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts.
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Stravinsky, John; McManus, James (Introduction) Read 'Em and Weep: A Bedside Poker Companion
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. HarperCollins 2004 0060559586 / 9780060559588 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Stated First Edition. Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 235 pages. More than 50 million Americans play poker. But poker is much more than a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated by a multitude of colorful characters -- professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers. From the rich field of all the writers who have ever loved the game, editor John Stravinsky has gathered thirty-nine best-of-breed short stories, essays, excerpts from novels, and poems: Mark Twain, John Updike, James Thurber, Nelson Algren, Martin Amis, and Billy Collins are among the winning hand of renowned writers in this collection who have mined their personal experiences at the poker table.
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Stravinsky, John; McManus, James (Introduction) Read 'Em and Weep: A Bedside Poker Companion
HarperCollins 2004 0060559586 / 9780060559588 First Edition Hard Cover Near-Fine Fine
A photo of this book is available. Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Stated First Edition. Tight spine - Bright pages. Gift inscription in book front on blank page: "Happy 31st Birthday Jack - Love, Mom". NO other writing, marks or tears inside book. 235 pages. More than 50 million Americans play poker. But poker is much more than a popular game. It is a world unto itself, populated by a multitude of colorful characters -- professionals and amateurs, hustlers and dreamers. From the rich field of all the writers who have ever loved the game, editor John Stravinsky has gathered thirty-nine best-of-breed short stories, essays, excerpts from novels, and poems: Mark Twain, John Updike, James Thurber, Nelson Algren, Martin Amis, and Billy Collins are among the winning hand of renowned writers in this collection who have mined their personal experiences at the poker table.
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