A Gambler's Anatomy

A Gambler's Anatomy

Lethem, Jonathan

Editorial Doubleday
Fecha de edición octubre 2016 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780385539906
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Resumen del libro

The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks hes psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face.

Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur 'whales' who think they can challenge his peerless acumen at backgammon. Fronted by his pasty, vampiric manager, Edgar Falk, Bruno arrives in Berlin after a troubling run of bad luck in Singapore. Perhaps it was the chance encounter with his crass childhood acquaintance Keith Stolarsky and his smoldering girlfriend Tira Harpaz. Or perhaps it was the emergence of a blot that distorts his vision so he has to look at the board sideways.

Things dont go much better in Berlin. Brunos flirtation with Madchen, the striking blonde he meets on the ferry, is inconclusive; the game at the unsettling Herr Kohlers mansion goes awry as his blot grows worse; he passes out and is sent to the local hospital, where he is given an extremely depressing diagnosis. Having run through Falks money, Bruno turns to Stolarsky, who, for reasons of his own, agrees to fly Bruno to Berkeley, and to pay for the experimental surgery that might save his life.

Berkeley, where Bruno discovered his psychic abilities, and to which he vowed never to return. Amidst the patchouli flashbacks and Anarchist gambits of the local scene, between Tiras come-ons and Keiths machinations, Bruno confronts two existential questions: Is the gambler being played by life? And what if youre telepathic but it doesnt do you any good?

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Jonathan Lethemx{0026}lt;/B (Nueva York, 1964) es una de las voces más imaginativas de la ficción contemporánea. Por su novela x{0026}lt;I Huérfanos de Brooklyn x{0026}lt;/I (Literatura Random House, 2001) recibió el Premio Nacional de la Crítica de su país en 1999. En Literatura Random House se han publicado Cx{0026}lt;I uando Alice se subió a la mesax{0026}lt;/I (2003), x{0026}lt;I La Fortaleza de la Soledadx{0026}lt;/I (2005), x{0026}lt;I Todavía no me quieres x{0026}lt;/I (2008), x{0026}lt;I Chronic Cityx{0026}lt;/I (2011) y x{0026}lt;I Los Jardines de la Disidenciax{0026}lt;/I (2014).x{0026}lt;/P





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