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Picador
March 2002
On Sale: March 1, 2002
448 pages
ISBN: 0312422520
EAN: 9780312422523
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Non-Fiction
In the spring of 2000, Harper's Magazine sent James McManus
to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in
particular the progress of women in the $23 million event,
and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament's prodigal
host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend.
But when McManus arrives, the lure of the tables compels him
to risk his entire Harper's advance in a long-shot attempt
to play in the tournament himself. This is his deliciously
suspenseful account of the tournament-the players, the
hand-to-hand combat, his own unlikely progress in it-and the
delightfully seedy carnival atmosphere that surrounds it.
Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure and a
terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort
to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called 'Pleistocene
exigencies'-the eros and logistics of our competitive instincts.
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