The Ballad of a Small Player
€13.05
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780099599685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lawrence Osborne |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.166 |
| Publishing Date | 23/04/2015 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.31 |
| Tax | €0.74 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €13.05 |
| Availability | 8 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING COLIN FARELL AND TILDA SWINTON
‘I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’
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.