Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player
Anthony Holden
(Author)
Description
In 1988, best-selling biographer Anthony Holden spent one year living the life of a professional poker player. His mesmerizing account of that year went on to become a classic of the genre, an inspiration to innumerable poker players and poker memoirists who followed. Big Deal is his story of days and nights in Las Vegas, Malta, and Morocco, mingling with the greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process. Poker, Holden would insist, is a paradigm of life at its most intense, a gladiatorial contest that brings out the best as well as the worst in people. The heroes and eccentrics of the poker world stalk the pages of this remarkable book, along with all the hairraising, nail-biting excitement of the game itself.
Product Details
Price
$24.99
$23.24
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publish Date
April 03, 2007
Pages
416
Dimensions
5.75 X 1.0 X 8.61 inches | 0.82 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780743294812
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About the Author
Anthony Holden is an award-winning journalist who has published more than thirty books, including He Played For His Wife...And Other Stories and biographies of Laurence Olivier, Tchaikovsky, and Shakespeare. He has published translations of opera, ancient Greek plays, and poetry. He was director of European Film and Television at Exclusive Media, where he helped relaunch Britain's most famous film production label, Hammer. Anthony Holden lives in London.
Reviews
Holden is the top writer in pokerdom. -- Martin Amis
A remarkable odyssey -- part Damon Runyon, part Dostoevsky . . . His insights into the peculiar alchemy of character and fate that draws writers to poker turns his book into a high-stakes psychological thriller. -- Vanity Fair
Poker, as Anthony Holden astutely points out, is a lot like life. This idea informs his very funny book, with its priceless descriptions of hands, bluffs, and fellow players. -- Los Angeles Times
Mr. Holden writes with extreme grace and wit . . . [Big Deal is one of the] best books on poker. -- The New York Times
An entertaining tale, made all the more so by Holden's smooth prose and gift for self-deprecation. -- The Washington Post
A remarkable odyssey -- part Damon Runyon, part Dostoevsky . . . His insights into the peculiar alchemy of character and fate that draws writers to poker turns his book into a high-stakes psychological thriller. -- Vanity Fair
Poker, as Anthony Holden astutely points out, is a lot like life. This idea informs his very funny book, with its priceless descriptions of hands, bluffs, and fellow players. -- Los Angeles Times
Mr. Holden writes with extreme grace and wit . . . [Big Deal is one of the] best books on poker. -- The New York Times
An entertaining tale, made all the more so by Holden's smooth prose and gift for self-deprecation. -- The Washington Post
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