- Description
Description
In the spring of 2000, Harper's Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in particular the progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend. But when McManus arrives, the lure of the tables compels him to risk his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. This is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament--the players, the hand-to-hand combat, his own unlikely progress in it--and the delightfully seedy carnival atmosphere that surrounds it. Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called Pleistocene exigencies--the eros and logistics of our competitive instincts.
Author: James McManus
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 03/01/2004
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.49w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780312422523
ISBN10: 0312422520
BISAC Categories:
- Games & Activities | Card Games | Poker
- True Crime | Murder | General
- Social Science | Popular Culture
About the Author
James McManus is a novelist and poet, most recently winner of the Peter Lisagor Award for sports journalism. He teaches writing and comparative literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, including a course on the literature and science of poker.
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