For Richer, For Poorer - A Love Affair With Poker

Zusatztext Not only the best book about poker you are ever likely to read, but an outstanding memoir, lucid and moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, never less than gripping and, quite simply, the best book I have read this year. Informationen zum Autor Victoria Coren Klappentext Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure? This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. It is a memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. It might also teach you how to win a million . . . The confessions of a player... Zusammenfassung The confessions of a player...

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Coren
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9781847672933
• ISBN: 978-1-84767-293-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography: general, Memoirs, Card games: Poker, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs