Tickets to the devil
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Word Count
76,500 words, Guess
Page Count
306 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveticketstodevil00powe
- LibraryThing1054512
- Library of Congress Control Number68027777
- Open LibraryOL5619068M
Classifications
- LCCPZ3.P87148 Ti
- LCCPS3531.O966 Ti
Description
This is a novel for readers who love bridge. It is a novel for readers who hate bridge. It is a a novel for readers who don't know the difference between a finesse and a five-card major and couldn't care less. You don't have to know bridge to be fascinated by the people in this book, who have gathered at a major tournament to prove that they can beat each other's brains out. They play big-time duplicate for many reasons. To some, it is a business. To others it is a drug, or a way of acting out fantasies, or a legal substitute for mayhem and manslaughter, or a reason for staying alive. Richard Powell, author of *The Philadelphian; Pioneer, Go Home!; I Take This Land; Don Quixote, U.S.A.;* and other novels, began playing tournament duplicate for still another reason. He found that it provided a unique laboratory for the study of human nature. Here is the result of his lab work: human nature as it comes boiling out of the Springs Nationals of the American Contract Bridge League.
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