Overview
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."
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780306811562
- ISBN-10: 0306811561
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Publish Date: March 2002
- Dimensions: 8.26 x 5.52 x 0.78 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.74 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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