- Fiction, Gamblers, Casinos, New York Times reviewed
On this Sunday, after the NFL preseason game, we were sitting on the porch quiet as mice when Jewel held up the newspaper and said, "Raymond. Let's go here and do this," and "here" was the Paradise casino, a dozen blocks away on the beach in Biloxi, and "this" was gambling.
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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Frederick Barthelme
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 213
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781299888364
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