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    The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death

    Colson Whitehead

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    In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. It was the assignment of a lifetime, except for one hitch - he'd never played in a casino tournament before. With just six weeks to train, he took the Greyhound to Atlantic City to learn the ways of high-stakes Texas Hold'em.

    Poker culture, he discovered, is marked by joy, heartbreak, and grizzled veterans playing against teenage hotshots weaned on Internet gambling. Not to mention the not-to-be overlooked issue of coordinating Port Authority bus schedules with your kid's drop-off and pickup at school.

    Finally arriving in Vegas for the multimillion-dollar tournament, Whitehead brilliantly details his progress, both literal and existential, through the event's antes and turns, through its gritty moments of calculation, hope, and spectacle. Entertaining, ironic, and strangely profound, this epic search for meaning at the World Series of Poker is a sure bet.

    'Astonishing. . . . Witty. . . . Tom Wolfe crossed with Tom Pynchon' Washington Post 'Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world' Boston Globe

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    Praise for The Noble Hustle

    • The Noble Hustle is fierce, funny and totally worth the buy-in - New York Daily News

    • Whitehead goes to the table himself, and like a reporter on the front line of battle, he files stories as the action heats up...[Whitehead] uses poker to expand our sense of how human beings work - New York Times Book Review

    • [A] trenchant, ruefully funny memoir of one man's attempt to dispel the banality of living with the anxiety of chance - USA Today

    • [Whitehead's] reporting on the grimy glitz of casinos and competitive gambling has a funny, tragic, loser-chic sensibility - New Yorker

    • A literary guide to the often bizarre world of casino-poker tournaments - Wall Street Journal

    Colson Whitehead

    Colson Whitehead

    Colson Whitehead is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award. A recipient of MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, he lives in New York City.

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