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A Gambler's Anatomy - A Novel

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Zusatztext A  New York Times Book Review  Notable Book of   2016  "In his new novel! he seems to be channeling (and! as usual! transforming) both Thomas Pynchon and Ian Fleming...in short! just another day in Lethemland! as strange and wondrous in its way as anyplace imagined by L. Frank Baum." -- Chicago Tribune  "A thoughtful! first-rate novel that also happens to be a page-turner." --New York Times Book Review "Delightfully weird..." --Vogue " A Gambler’s Anatomy  will lead more than one reader to rummage around in the back of their closet (or local toy store) for a backgammon set…mesmerizing! twisty! fearless.” --San Francisco Chronicle “An effortless blend of comic hijinks and madcap tragedy…Lethem serves up a punchy! stylish! relentlessly entertaining novel.” -- Star Tribune Informationen zum Autor JONATHAN LETHEM is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels! including Dissident Gardens ! The Fortress of Solitude ! and Motherless Brooklyn ; three short story collections; and two essay collections! including The Ecstasy of Influence ! which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction! Lethem's work has appeared in The New Yorker ! Harper's Magazine ! Rolling Stone ! Esquire ! and The New York Times ! among other publications. Klappentext The author of "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face. Handsome! impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty! vampiric manager! Edgar Falk! Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass childhood acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering girlfriend Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was the emergence of a blot that distorts his vision so he has to look at the board sideways. Things don't go much better in Berlin. Bruno's flirtation with Madchen! the striking blonde he meets on the ferry! is inconclusive; the game at the unsettling Herr Kohler's mansion goes awry as his blot grows worse; he passes out and is sent to the local hospital! where he is given an extremely depressing diagnosis. Having run through Falk's money! Bruno turns to Stolarsky! who! for reasons of his own! agrees to fly Bruno to Berkeley! and to pay for the experimental surgery that might save his life. Berkeley! where Bruno discovered his psychic abilities! and to which he vowed never to return. Amidst the patchouli flashbacks and Anarchist gambits of the local scene! between Tira's come-ons and Keith's machinations! Bruno confronts two existential questions: Is the gambler being played by life? And what if you're telepathic but it doesn't do you any good?" 9780385539906|excerpt Lethem / A GAMBLER'S ANATOMY One I It was there when he woke up. Presumably also when he slept. The blot. Standing alone at the back of the sparsely populated ferry to Kladow, mercifully sheltered behind safety glass against the chill of the lake at evening, Alexander Bruno could no longer deny the blot that had swollen in his vision and was with him always, the vacancy now deforming his view of the receding shore. It forced him to peer around its edges for glimpses of the mansions and biergartens, the strip of sand at the century-­old lido, the tarpaulined sailboats. He’d come to Berlin, half the circumference of the world, two weeks ago, whether to el...

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Authors Jonathan Lethem
Publisher Doubleday Usa
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 18.10.2016
 
EAN 9780385539906
ISBN 978-0-385-53990-6
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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