The Education of a Poker Player - 9781938160851
Un libro in lingua di James McManus edito da Boa Editions, 2015
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New York Times-bestselling author James McManus offers up a collection of seven linked stories narrated by Vincent Killeen, an Irish Catholic altar boy, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Persuaded at age eight by his grandmother that entering the priesthood will guarantee salvation for every member of his family, Vince eagerly commits to attending a Jesuit seminary for high school. As the meaning of a vow of celibacy becomes clearer to him, however, and he is exposed to the irresistible temptations of poker and girls, life as a seminarian begins to seem less appealing. These autobiographical stories are enlightening and evocative, providing keen, often humorous insight into Catholicism, faith, celibacy and its opposite, as well as America'sand increasingly the world'sfavorite card game.
James McManus has been called poker’s Shakespeare.” He is the New York Times-bestselling author ofPositively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, among others. His work has appeared inThe New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Believer, Paris Review, Esquire, and inBest American anthologies for poetry, sports writing, science and nature, and magazine writing. He is the recipient of the Peter Lisagor Award for Sports Journalism, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. He teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
New York Times-bestselling author James McManus offers up a collection of seven linked stories narrated by Vincent Killeen, an Irish Catholic altar boy, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Persuaded at age eight by his grandmother that entering the priesthood will guarantee salvation for every member of his family, Vince eagerly commits to attending a Jesuit seminary for high school. As the meaning of a vow of celibacy becomes clearer to him, however, and he is exposed to the irresistible temptations of poker and girls, life as a seminarian begins to seem less appealing. These autobiographical stories are enlightening and evocative, providing keen, often humorous insight into Catholicism, faith, celibacy and its opposite, as well as America'sand increasingly the world'sfavorite card game.
James McManus has been called poker’s Shakespeare.” He is the New York Times-bestselling author ofPositively Fifth Street and Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, among others. His work has appeared inThe New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s, The Believer, Paris Review, Esquire, and inBest American anthologies for poetry, sports writing, science and nature, and magazine writing. He is the recipient of the Peter Lisagor Award for Sports Journalism, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. He teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Education of a Poker Player
- Lingua: English
- Autore: James McManus
- Editore: Boa Editions
- Collana: Boa Editions (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 13 Ottobre '15
- Genere: FICTION
- Pagine: 248
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 133 x 0
- ISBN-10: 1938160851
- EAN-13: 9781938160851