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Аннотация: The Ballad of a Small Player
His name is Lord Doyle.
His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.
His game: baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.'
Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money - and himself - up in smoke.
So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another naughty lemonade and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyle's way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater.
The Ballad of a Small Player is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortune's fickle hand.
| Автор/составитель | Osborne Lawrence |
| Год выпуска | 2015 |
| ISBN | 9780099599685 |
| Производитель | Vintage books |
| Количество томов | 1 |
| Количество страниц | 216 |
| Переплет | Мягкая обложка |
| Размеры | 197x127x14 мм |
| Цвет | Красный |
| Тип бумаги | газетная (30-52 г/м2) |
| Вес | 164 |
| Язык | английский |
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The Ballad of a Small Player
- Модель: MYSH4929583
- ISBN: 9780099599685
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Срок доставки: 21 день
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