The Ballad of a Small Player / Книга на Английском (Osborne Lawrence); Vintage books, 2015

His name is Lord Doyle.

His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.

His game: baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.'

Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money – and himself – up in smoke.

So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another naughty lemonade and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyle’s way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater.

The Ballad of a Small Player is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortune’s fickle hand.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780099599685
Автор(ы)	Osborne Lawrence
Вес	0.16
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2015
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Vintage books
Издательство	Vintage books
Кол-во страниц	216
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	216
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая