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    Risky Business: People, Pastimes, Poker and Books

    Risky Business by Alvarez, Al;

    People, Pastimes, Poker and Books

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 21 January 2008
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780747593119
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages416 pages
    • Size 198x126x34 mm
    • Weight 920 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Poetry, poker, mountaineering, novels - a sparkling collection of essays from Britain's best-loved man of letters

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    Long description:

    'In a book this good, in the company of a mind this judicious and fine, the reader is left wanting more' Telegraph

    Poetry, poker, mountaineering, novels - a sparkling collection of essays from Britain's best-loved man of letters
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    Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises. One of the most influential post-war critics, he has written profoundly and eloquently about writers and their craft for over fifty years. But Alvarez has also been a passionate amateur of risky pursuits - poker playing, mountaineering, flying in aeroplanes - and he written about these subjects with a rare depth, liveliness and perception.

    This is a collection of his finest essays. Ranging from trenchant literary criticism to accounts of polar expeditions and poker championships, Risky Business is a sparkling and eclectic anthology from our most unusual man of letters.

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