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Poker face : a girlhood among gamblers / Katy Lederer.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.E3417 Z49 2003
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LIBRA PS3612.E3417 Z49 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lederer, Katy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lederer, Katy--Childhood and youth.
- Lederer, Katy.
- Lederer, Katy--Homes and haunts--Nevada--Las Vegas.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Families.
- Gamblers.
- Nevada--Las Vegas.
- Nevada.
- Las Vegas (Nev.)--Social life and customs.
- Las Vegas (Nev.).
- Gambling--Nevada--Las Vegas.
- Gambling.
- Gamblers--Nevada--Las Vegas.
- Families--Nevada--Las Vegas.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 209 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, [2003]
- Summary:
- Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where her father taught English, her mother retreated into cross-words and scotch, and her much older siblings played "grown-up" games like gin rummy and chess. But Katy faced much more than the typical trials of childhood. Within the confines of the Lederer household an unlikely transformation was brewing, one that would turn this darkly intellectual and game-happy group into a family of professional gamblers. Poker Face is Katy Lederer's perceptive account of her family's lively history. From the long kitchen table where her mother played what seemed an endless game of solitaire, to the seedy New York bars where her brother first learned to play poker, to the glamorous Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, where her sister and brother wager hundreds of thousands of dollars a night at the tables, Lederer takes us on a tragicomic journey through a world where intelligence and deceit are used equally as currency. Not since Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood has a writer cast such a witty and astringently analytic eye on the demands of growing up. An unflinching exploration of trust and betrayal, competition, suspicion, and unconventional familial love, Poker Face is a testament to the human spirit's inventiveness when faced with unusually difficult odds.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Green Glasses 3
- 1 Faces 13
- 2 Stealing 25
- 3 Games 35
- 4 The Bar Point 45
- 5 Old Money 55
- 6 New Money 65
- 7 The Figures 77
- 8 The Family Business 87
- 9 Happiness 97
- 10 A's 107
- 11 One of Them 119
- 12 Tells 129
- 13 PokerWorld 141
- 14 Expectations 151
- 15 A Girl's Room 163
- 16 Facades 173
- 17 The Files 185
- 18 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 197
- Epilogue: "The Dancing Waters" 207.
- ISBN:
- 0609608983
- OCLC:
- 51095500
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