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Double Down : Reflections on Gambling and Loss
Double Down : Reflections on Gambling and Loss
Author: Barthelme, Frederick / Barthelme, Steven
Edition/Copyright: 1999
ISBN: 0-15-601070-4
Publisher: Harvest Books
Type: Print On Demand
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Frederick and Steven Barthelme both teach at the University of Southern Mississippi

 
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"One of the best firsthand accounts ever written about organized gambling."-James Lee Burke

 
  Summary

Double Downis a true story, a terrifying roller-coaster ride deep into the heart of two men, and into the world of floating Gulf Coast casinos. When both of their parents died within a short time of each other, the writers Frederick and Steven Barthelme, both professors of English in Mississippi, inherited a goodly sum of money. What followed was a binge during which they gambled away their entire fortune-and more. And then, in a cruel twist of fate, they were charged with cheating at the tables. Told with a mixture of sadness and wry humor, and with a compelling look at the physical aura of gambling-the feel of the cards, the smell of the crowd, the sounds of the tables-Double Downis a reflection on the lure of challenging the odds, the attraction of stepping into the void. A cautionary tale (the brothers were eventually exonerated), it is a book that, once read, will never be forgotten.

 

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