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The Ballad of a Small Player

Af: Lawrence Osborne Engelsk Paperback

The Ballad of a Small Player

Af: Lawrence Osborne Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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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.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9780099599685
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0099599686
Kategori: Macao
Udg. Dato: 23 apr 2015
Længde: 14mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 23 apr 2015
Forfatter(e): Lawrence Osborne
Forfatter(e) Lawrence Osborne


Kategori Macao


ISBN-13 9780099599685


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 224


Udgave


Længde 14mm


Bredde 131mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 23 apr 2015


Oplagsdato 23 apr 2015


Forlag Vintage Publishing

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