{"product_id":"players-con-men-hustlers-gamblers-and-scam-artists-paperback","title":"Players: Con Men, Hustlers, Gamblers, and Scam Artists - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeno Zanetti\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eStephen Hyde\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce I hear the clatter of chips I almost go into convulsions,\" said Dostoyevsky, while Anatole France wrote, \"The gambler is driven by the fascination of danger at the bottom of all great passions.\" The characters the reader meets in Players -- chess grand masters, poolroom hustlers, or street-hardened practitioners of the short con -- are all alike propelled by the ecstasy of risk. \"The stake is money,\" France wrote, \"in other words, immediate, infinite possibilities.\" In fact, as the reader hooks up with David Mamet in the poker room and meets Damon Runyon's Bookie Bob, Saul Bellow's immortal Yellow Kid, and learns from Herbert Asbury about the antics of Izzy and Moe, and from David Maurer about the discreet charm of the confidence man, Walter Tevis on Fast Eddie Felson and Minnesota Fats on the seductions of nineteenth-century gambling dens, high lives and low will merge and the world of gambler and con-artist will blur. Selected writings by Jorge Luis Borges, Hunter S. Thompson, Nick Tosches, and many others are featured.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Hyde and Geno Zanetti are a writing, researching, and filmmaking team based in Portsmouth, England. They are also the editors of White Lines: Writers on Cocaine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.11 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426900230322,"sku":"9781560253808","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/dd132468247f5aa56c5c3224139e82fb.webp?v=1778519857","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/players-con-men-hustlers-gamblers-and-scam-artists-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}