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Loading... Last Call (original 1992; edition 1996)by Tim Powers
Work InformationLast Call by Tim Powers (1992)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was one of those rare page-turners... after a certain point I just could not put it down, which is why I started in on the second half of the book around midnight tonight and am just now finishing at 6am. This is a book firing on all cylinders - pitch-perfect characterization, a deep and involving mythology, suspense, thrills, and incredible high stakes. Highly recommended, even to people who don't understand poker (like myself). no reviews | add a review
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HTML: Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969â??and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card. Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, this World Fantasy Awardâ??winning novel is a masterpiece of magic realism set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas No library descriptions found. |
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The book abounds with poker lore, pop culture memes, creepy quotes from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and symbolic allusions to the Arthurian Grail story. At one point, Powers explains the rules of a fictional version of poker called Assumption. The wary reader will note them well.
Last Call is stylish and readable, with plenty of suspense. Lynch should have made a miniseries from it. ( )