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Hats & Eyeglasses
by Frankel ,Martha
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1585425583
- ISBN 13
- 9781585425587
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About This Item
NY,NY: Penguin. "a family love affair with gambling" NEW copy in new jacket. No remainder or any other markings. Fresh tight bright. Size: 8vo . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 2008.
Synopsis
Martha Frankel grew up in a warm, loving family of diehard gamblers, where her father?s poker games and her mother?s mah-jongg blended happily with big pots of delicious food and endless gossip. As kids, she and her cousins bet on everything?from which of their Weight Watching mothers would lose the most to who could hold their breath longest underwater or eat the most matzo. But once Frankel left for college and later became a successful entertainment journalist, gambling didn?t factor much into her life. She thought her family legacy had passed her by. In this ?fast-paced and amazingly funny? ( The Times- Picayune ) memoir, Frankel traces her love affair with poker, an obsession that didn?t hit until her mid-forties. And she was good at poker. Frankel won routinely, whether she was playing in her Wednesday-night poker game or in one of the seedy, out-of-the-way rooms she always managed to find when on assignment. But all this changed when she discovered online poker. It was the beginning of what one of her uncles called ?hats and eyeglasses,? a term used to describe those times when you?re losing so bad your ship is sinking until all that?s left on the water?s surface are your hat and eyeglasses. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hats & Eyeglasses is a tale of passion, addiction? and those times in life when we almost lose our shirt.
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- Bookseller
- mompopsbooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10054
- Title
- Hats & Eyeglasses
- Author
- Frankel ,Martha
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1585425583
- ISBN 13
- 9781585425587
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- NY,NY
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- GAMBLING USA MEMOIR FRANKEL2008
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