- Fantasy, Fiction, Gamblers, Poker players
One–time professional gambler Scott Crane 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 –– a contest he believed he walked away from a big winner –– are drawing him back to the magical city.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Tim Powers, Tim Powers
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books, Tandem Library, Avon Books
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062233271
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“George Leon held his little boy's hand too tightly and stared up from under his hatbrim at the unnaturally dark noon sky.”
**Tim Powers** is the author of fourteen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, Hide Me Among the Graves, and On Stranger Tides, which was adapted for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same title. His novels have twice won the Philip K. Dick Award and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and three times won Locus Awards. Powers lives with his wife, Serena, in San Bernardino, California.
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