Martin Oakes is a professional poker player--cool, mysterious, ever appraising the hand life deals him. Martin Oakes never loses. He lives with his adored wife, Jennifer, outside Boston, where he has begun to develop a sideline that will shortly become central: he teaches problem kids how to play poker. These distraught, surprising adolescents figure they can turn poker to their own advantage; their parents hope the kids will get some sense drummed into them; and for Martin Oakes the poker classes become both a necessary ...
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Martin Oakes is a professional poker player--cool, mysterious, ever appraising the hand life deals him. Martin Oakes never loses. He lives with his adored wife, Jennifer, outside Boston, where he has begun to develop a sideline that will shortly become central: he teaches problem kids how to play poker. These distraught, surprising adolescents figure they can turn poker to their own advantage; their parents hope the kids will get some sense drummed into them; and for Martin Oakes the poker classes become both a necessary escape and a fount of strength. As the story moves inexorably from one showdown to the next, as Martin Oakes delivers to his unlikely pupils his lessons in courage, guile and wit, as he himself learns more than he had thought possible about winning and losing, the reader is gently but completely taken over, royally entertained, and charmingly instructed.
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Ryan, Conall., Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, c1989, 1st Edition, boards & cloth (hard cover), vg+ with vg+ dj, 305 pp, 8vo, "Martin Oakes is a professional poker player..."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket scuffed with light edgewear. Boards have rubbed edges. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Library stamps only, no other markings.
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Fine/Fine. Size: 8x5x1; Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 305 pages, yellow quarter cloth with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket, with the original price.
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Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Book ISBN: 0-394-57214-9. Story of a professional poker player/gambling. Appears unread John Howard dj. near fine, nf dj, golden yellow cloth & bds, clean text, tight 305 pgs.
