Name: positively fifth street
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Author: McManus, James
ISBN: 9780312422523

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Author

James McManus

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.2 x 13.9 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.35 kg.

ISBN

0312422520

ISBN13

9780312422523

Synopsis "positively fifth street"

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.

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