The Ballad of a Small Player
€ 13,05
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780099599685 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Lawrence Osborne |
| Editora | Vintage Publishing |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 224 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,166 |
| Data de Publicação | 23/04/2015 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 12,31 |
| Imposto | € 0,74 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 13,05 |
| Disponibilidade | 8 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING COLIN FARELL AND TILDA SWINTON
‘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.