The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death by Colson Whitehead (English) Pape

Description: The Noble Hustle by Colson Whitehead From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys • "Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world." —The Boston GlobeIn 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch—hed never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, our humble narrator took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Holdem. Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kids drop-off and pickup at school. Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the events antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet.Look for Colson Whiteheads new novel, Crook Manifesto! FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography COLSON WHITEHEAD is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad. His other works include The Noble Hustle, Zone One, Sag Harbor, The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and one collection of essays, The Colossus of New York. A National Book Award winner and a recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City. Review An NPR Best Book of the Year"Astonishing. . . . Witty. . . . Tom Wolfe crossed with Tom Pynchon." —The Washington Post "The Noble Hustle is fierce, funny and totally worth the buy-in." —New York Daily News"Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world." —The Boston Globe "The Noble Hustle, part love letter, part dark confessional, captures perfectly the mix of neurosis and narrative that makes gambling so appealing." —Mother Jones"Whitehead goes to the table himself, and like a reporter on the front line of battle, he files stories as the action heats up...[Whitehead] uses poker to expand our sense of how human beings work."—The New York Times Book Review"[A] trenchant, ruefully funny memoir of one mans attempt to dispel the banality of living with the anxiety of chance." —USA Today "Fascinating. . . . Funny. . . . Its hard not to root for the underdog." —Chicago Tribune "Mordantly funny from the first sentence. . . . Mr. Whitehead may not have gone home in the money, but he has a way with upstanding sentences." —The Economist "Hilarious. . . . Equal parts philosophical and farcical." —The Seattle Times "Clever and entertaining." —The Miami Herald "[Whiteheads] reporting on the grimy glitz of casinos and competitive gambling has a funny, tragic, loser-chic sensibility." —The New Yorker "A literary guide to the often bizarre world of casino-poker tournaments." —The Wall Street Journal "Whitehead captures the sketchy and zombielike nature of poker tournament play well enough to leave you wishing this book came with a free bottle of Purell." —Entertainment Weekly "A sly, shambling, self-appraising riff on how he—a fervent amateur (and newly divorced father)—braved a Las Vegas World Series of Poker tourney." —Elle "From the first sentence to the last, Colson Whitehead never stops being clever. . . . If Whitehead played poker as well as he writes, he would have made the final table." —The Philadelphia Inquirer "Part memoir, part satire, part meditation on the fractured state of contemporary culture." —Los Angeles Times "A masterpiece of sportswriting." —The Rumpus"Shares with [David Foster] Wallaces work the close attention of a wry, sharp intelligence to a populist pastime, a mix of casual and highfalutin diction, a self-deprecating voice that youre never sure is totally truthful in its deprecation, and a fondness for broad cultural pronouncements." —The San Francisco Chronicle Review Quote "Whitehead serves up an engrossing mix of casual yet astute reportage and hang-dog philosophizing, showing us that, for all of pokers intricate calculations and shrewd stratagems, everything still hangs on the turn of a card." Excerpt from Book Excerpted from the Hardcover edition I have a good poker face because I am half dead inside. My particular combo of slack features, negligible affect, and soulless gaze has helped my game ever since I started playing twenty years ago, when I was ignorant of pot odds and M-theory and four-betting, and it gave me a boost as I collected my trove of lore, game by game, hand by hand. It has not helped me human relationships-wise over the years, but surely Im not alone here. Anyone whose peculiar mix of genetic material and formative experiences has resulted in a near-expressionless mask can relate. Nature giveth, taketh, etc. You make the best of the hand youre dealt. This thing draped over my skull and fastened by muscle is also a not-too-bad public-transportation face, a kind of wretched camouflage, which would come in handy on my trip to Atlantic City. Flash this mug and people dont mess with you on buses, and this day I was heading to training camp. I had six weeks to get in shape. I was being staked to play in the World Series of Poker for a magazine, and my regular game was a five-dollar buy-in where catching up with friends took precedence over pulverizing your opponents. There was no question about taking a bus. Im of that subset of native New Yorkers who cant drive. Every spring, I made noises about getting my license and checked out the websites of local driving schools, which as a species embodied the most retrograde web design on the internet, real Gal Details ISBN0345804333 Author Colson Whitehead Short Title NOBLE HUSTLE Pages 256 Language English ISBN-10 0345804333 ISBN-13 9780345804334 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 795.412 Residence Brooklyn, NY, US Birth 1969 Year 2015 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2015-03-03 NZ Release Date 2015-03-03 US Release Date 2015-03-03 UK Release Date 2015-03-03 Place of Publication New York Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2015-03-03 Imprint Anchor Books Subtitle Poker, Beef Jerky and Death Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:92008360;

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