- Scrabble (Game), Games, Nonfiction, Tournaments
Stefan Fatsis, a Wall Street Journal reporter and National Public Radio regular, recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them -- and him.
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Contemporary, classical in form, warm and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Stefan Fatsis
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 372
- Publisher
- Penguin, Penguin (Non-Classics), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780547524313
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