Poker Tales 9780981947624

Варианты приобретения

Цена: 2578.00р.
Кол-во:
Наличие: Поставка под заказ. Есть в наличии на складе поставщика.
Склад Америка: Есть
При оформлении заказа до: 2025-07-23
Ориентировочная дата поставки: конец Сентября - начало Октября
При условии наличия книги у поставщика.

Добавить в корзину

в Мои желания

Автор: Heise William E.
Название: Poker Tales
ISBN: 9780981947624
Классификация: ISBN-10: 098194762X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 228
Вес: 0.31 кг.
Дата издания: 01.04.2012
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 13
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Texas Hold Em is one on the most popular card games being played in the world today. But author William Heise thought it odd that there was not a lot of literary fiction being written on poker. As he writes in his introduction: Golf and baseball have given us hoards of books in the 20th century on the life lessons to be learned from their respective games.... But when it came to poker, I found that most recent literature on the subject was confined to the rough-and-tumble world of poker written by those who had experienced the up-and-down lifestyle for themselves. Noting that poker relies on bluffing as much or more than on the cards themselves, Heise has written a series of short stories which trade on this unique aspect of the game. In his frame narrative, a kid (known only as the Kid) breezes into Las Vegas the day after his 21st birthday and sits down at a table with an old-timer (known only as the Old-Timer). The Old-Timer proceeds to tell the Kid a series of short stories on seemingly unrelated matters: * Tales of actors and directors * Tales of riverboat gamblers and chess masters* Tales of mobsters and Texas cheats * Even a tale of the Devil himself Each poker tale is worth reading on its own, but the question that arises in the frame narrative becomes whether the Old-Timer is simply the kindly old man that the Kid takes him to be, or whether he has a more devious purpose in mind when he invites the Kid to sit down and play this simple game with him.

Poker Tales, Heise William E.