BOB THE GAMBLER.
by Barthelme, Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395809770
- ISBN 13
- 9780395809778
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1997.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Set in Biloxi, Mississippi, and described as "A wonderfully crackball love story in which Ray and Jewel Kaiser try out the Paradise casino and what curious things happen to them; what tricks of chance involving, among others, Jewel's fourteen-year-old daughter RV, the casino and its personnel, Ray's dead father, and a mother convinced that a sitcom star is visiting across the street from her house" this darkly funny novel has dustjacket praise from such authors as John Barth, Robert Olen Butler and more. Barthelme has also written eloquently in the New Yorker magazine about his own real problems with gambling. SIGNED on the title page. 213 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64246
- Title
- BOB THE GAMBLER.
- Author
- Barthelme, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395809770
- ISBN 13
- 9780395809778
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1997.
- Keywords
- gulf coast, mississippi setting, gambling,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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