Playing Off the Rail

Informationen zum Autor David McCumber is an award-winning journalist, a former assistant managing editor at the San Francisco Examiner, and the founding editor and publisher of Big Sky Journal. He has worked for more than twenty years as a writer and editor at newspapers and magazines across the American West. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Klappentext At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle. Zusammenfassung At the age of 17! David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later! he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni! a non-smoking! macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler!" student of Eastern religion! and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27!000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy! hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys! from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos! in search of serious money! local glory...and the perfect hustle. ...

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At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.