Balling the Jack
1st Edition
Published on 26. May 2016
205 pages
978-0-00-819147-4 (ISBN)
Description
Sharp, funny, romantic tale of love and gambling in slacker-generation New York.
Tom Reasons is a young man who takes his pay cheque every week and bets it all on a Friday night ball game. Then it's either champagne or pot-noodles for a week. He's lost his girl because he couldn't commit to her and now he regrets it. He hangs out at an Irish bar and plays on the darts team with his pals. One drunken night, he challenges the captain of the meanest, dirtiest team in the league to a money-match. And then doubles the bet. Now the race is on for Tom to come up with the $40,000 stake and get his team to win without telling them how much pressure they are really under! Great suspense, lots of laughs, true romance.
Tom Reasons is a young man who takes his pay cheque every week and bets it all on a Friday night ball game. Then it's either champagne or pot-noodles for a week. He's lost his girl because he couldn't commit to her and now he regrets it. He hangs out at an Irish bar and plays on the darts team with his pals. One drunken night, he challenges the captain of the meanest, dirtiest team in the league to a money-match. And then doubles the bet. Now the race is on for Tom to come up with the $40,000 stake and get his team to win without telling them how much pressure they are really under! Great suspense, lots of laughs, true romance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,26 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-819147-4 (9780008191474)
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Frank Baldwin
Balling the Jack
Book
10/1997
HarperCollins
€27.43
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Person
Frank Baldwin was born in New York City in 1963. He grew up in New York and in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Hamilton College and worked a series of jobs. He was a paralegal, bartender, construction worker and copy editor. He and his wife Lora currently live in San Francisco.
