One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."
The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas
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Author: Millman, Chad
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780306811562
Details:
Author: Millman, Chad
Brand: Da Capo Press
Color: Multicolor
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 260
Release Date: 28-03-2002
Part Number: black & white illustrations
Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780306811562
