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The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death de Whitehead, Colson-
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- Estado
- En buen estado
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780385537056
- Book Title
- Noble Hustle : Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Games & Activities, Humor
- Topic
- Card Games / Poker, Gambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling), Literary, Form / Essays
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 12.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead's hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as " Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins." On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online online magazine Grantland to see how far he could get in the World Series of Poker. But since it stems from the astonishing mind of Colson Whitehead (MacArthur Award-endorsed ), the book is a brilliant, hilarious, weirdly profound, and ultimately moving portrayal of--yes, it sounds overblown and ridiculous, but really --the human condition. After weeks of preparation that included repeated bus trips to glamorous Atlantic City, and hiring a personal trainer to toughen him up for sitting at twelve hours a stretch, the author journeyed to the gaudy wonderland that is Las Vegas - the world's greatest "Leisure Industrial Complex" -- to try his luck in the multi-million dollar tournament. Hobbled by his mediocre playing skills and a lifelong condition known as "anhedonia" (the inability to experience pleasure) Whitehead did not - spoiler alert - win tens of millions of dollars. But he did chronicle his progress, both literal and existential, in this unbelievably funny, uncannily accurate social satire whose main target is the author himself. Whether you've been playing cards your whole life, or have never picked up a hand, you're sure to agree that this book contains some of the best writing about beef jerky ever put to paper.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385537050
ISBN-13
9780385537056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
169890890
Product Key Features
Book Title
Noble Hustle : Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Card Games / Poker, Gambling / General (See Also Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling), Literary, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Games & Activities, Humor
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
12.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gv1254.W45 2014
Reviews
"Whitehead serves up an engrossing mix of casual yet astute reportage and hang-dog philosophizing, showing us that, for all of poker's intricate calculations and shrewd stratagems, everything still hangs on the turn of a card." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "As a novelist of considerable range, Whitehead consistently writes about more than he's ostensibly writing about...here writing a poker book that should strike a responsive literary chord with some who know nothing about the game...Engaging in its color and character." - Kirkus Reviews, "Whitehead serves up an engrossing mix of casual yet astute reportage and hang-dog philosophizing, showing us that, for all of poker's intricate calculations and shrewd stratagems, everything still hangs on the turn of a card." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "As a novelist of considerable range, Whitehead consistently writes about more than he's ostensibly writing about...here writing a poker book that should strike a responsive literary chord with some who know nothing about the game...Engaging in its color and character." - Kirkus Reviews "Colloquial, with many personal digressions and heavy on pop-culture references, it reads like a memoir crossed with a literary guide to the often bizarre world of casin-poker tournaments..." -The Wall Street Journal " This is not one of those poker books about a gang of math whizzes from Harvard who go to Vegas and win a gazillion dollars... A self-described citizen of the Republic of Anhedonia, whose residents are unable to experience pleasure, Whitehead, author of Zone One and other novels, agress to enter the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and see how far his half-dead poker face and a $10,000 stake can take him... Whitehead's account may seem at first like just another 'sad story about a pair of Jacks,' but it's really something very different, much sadder and much, much funnier. He calls his book ' Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins,' and that pretty much says it, if you remember that the eating part is mostly about beef jerky and the praying is for a pair of aces." - Booklist (Starred Review) " In 2011, Whiting Writers' Award-winning author Whitehead ( Zone One ) attended and participated in the World Series of Poker...Hilarity ensued...Entertaining and absorbing, Whitehead's look at the subculture of gambling and casino tournaments will appeal even to nongambling readers. Also recommended for those who enjoy memoir." -Library Journal " The Noble Hustle, a darkly humorous work of participatory reportage that finds [Whitehead] (a decided amateur) attempting to play poker with the pros... Hustle is a hoot ... Whitehead proves an ideal observer of poker culture... the tale he tells is much more than that of an odds-against-him novice. It's a story of a writer befuddled by fatherhood and middle age. Whitehead may not triumph at the tables, but his new book is a winner." - Bookpage, "Whitehead serves up an engrossing mix of casual yet astute reportage and hang-dog philosophizing, showing us that, for all of poker's intricate calculations and shrewd stratagems, everything still hangs on the turn of a card." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review), "Whitehead serves up an engrossing mix of casual yet astute reportage and hang-dog philosophizing, showing us that, for all of poker''s intricate calculations and shrewd stratagems, everything still hangs on the turn of a card." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "As a novelist of considerable range, Whitehead consistently writes about more than he''s ostensibly writing about...here writing a poker book that should strike a responsive literary chord with some who know nothing about the game...Engaging in its color and character." - Kirkus Reviews "Colloquial, with many personal digressions and heavy on pop-culture references, it reads like a memoir crossed with a literary guide to the often bizarre world of casino-poker tournaments..." -The Wall Street Journal "[Whitehead''s] reporting on the grimy glitz of casinos and competitive gambling has a funny, tragic, loser-chic sesibility." -The New Yorker "...A witty, wandering book about poker...Tom Wolfe crossed with Tom Pynchon," -The Washington Post "Whitehead was rarely lucky - and maybe that''s what makes this crass, sardonic tour through America''s wasteland of bright lights, overpriced all-you-can-eat menus and windowless banquet hall behemoths so funny." -The Chicago Tribune " The Noble Hustle , part love letter, part dark confessional, captures perfectly the mix of neurosis and narrative that makes gambling so appealing." -Mother Jones " The Noble Hustle is fierce, funny and totally worth the buy-in." -New York Daily News "Whitehead captures the sketchy and zombielike nature of poker tournament play well enough to leave you wishing this book came with a free bottle of Purell." -Entertainment Weekly " This is not one of those poker books about a gang of math whizzes from Harvard who go to Vegas and win a gazillion dollars... A self-described citizen of the Republic of Anhedonia, whose residents are unable to experience pleasure, Whitehead, author of Zone One and other novels, agress to enter the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and see how far his half-dead poker face and a $10,000 stake can take him... Whitehead''s account may seem at first like just another ''sad story about a pair of Jacks,'' but it''s really something very different, much sadder and much, much funnier. He calls his book '' Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shut-ins,'' and that pretty much says it, if you remember that the eating part is mostly about beef jerky and the praying is for a pair of aces." - Booklist (Starred Review) " In 2011, Whiting Writers'' Award-winning author Whitehead ( Zone One ) attended and participated in the World Series of Poker...Hilarity ensued...Entertaining and absorbing, Whitehead''s look at the subculture of gambling and casino tournaments will appeal even to nongambling readers. Also recommended for those who enjoy memoir." -Library Journal " The Noble Hustle, a darkly humorous work of participatory reportage that finds [Whitehead] (a decided amateur) attempting to play poker with the pros... Hustle is a hoot ... Whitehead proves an ideal observer of poker culture... the tale he tells is much more than that of an odds-against-him novice. It''s a story of a writer befuddled by fatherhood and middle age. Whitehead may not triumph at the tables, but his new book is a winner." - Bookpage " ...an engine of revved-up witticisms and one-liners." -The East Hampton Star "...the narrative glides to a graceful, evocative and crystalline conclusion." -The Buffalo News
Copyright Date
2014
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2013-031448
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795.412
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23
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