Lawrence Osborne: The Ballad of a Small Player

The Ballad of a Small Player


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'I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.' 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.

Not only the most comprehensive, but also simply the best English translation ever of the great Russian poet (1889-1966). Publication of the original hardcover edition was one of the great publishing and poetry events of 1990. The present edition adds 80 new poetic texts which came to light The Ballad of a Small Player free download pdf at the Biochar is not without dangers if unregulated, and it is not a panacea, but if it fulfills its promise of taking us back from the brink of irreversible climate change, it may well be the most important discovery in human history. Make the jump to lightspeed with the X-Wing Dice Expansion Pack for the X-Wing Miniatures Game! With an additional set of six custom eight-sided dice, your battles will move faster, letting you focus on outwitting your opponents. This accessory includes three red attack dice and three green defense dice, allowing each player to have a complete set of dice.


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Author: Lawrence Osborne
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Published Date: 23 Apr 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780099599685
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