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Queen of Spades by Shum, Dr. Michael Shou-Yung [Paperback]
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- ISBN
- 9781942436317
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
ISBN-10
1942436319
ISBN-13
9781942436317
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234380790
Product Key Features
Book Title
Queen of Spades
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-007822
Reviews
Michael Shou-Yung Shum's Queen of Spades is a remarkable debut by an enormously talented young writer who has produced a literary delight that circles the dead center of a very dangerous pleasure - casino gambling. The novel is a perfectly rendered view of gambling from the inside, the dealers and their overseers in the casinos, hard at work but with vastly different objectives. Some are company men and women, others - and some here in Queen of Spades - not so much. The novel is a lovely and complex gambling fairy tale that twists and turns in intriguing ways on its way to a most satisfying conclusion." - Frederick Barthelme, author of Bob the Gambler "A magical debut - literally. This tale is both spare and sprawling, gritty and otherworldly, both an homage to the complex psychology of gambling and a cautionary tale for those watching from the rail. A ridiculously satisfying read." - Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, and Songs of Willow Frost "In a spellbinding structure that spirals around the mysterious Royal Casino, Queen of Spades weaves a cast of high-stakes dealers and gamblers closer and closer together as if within a spider's web. Though their games are staked on chance, these characters' lives intersect by fate, destiny and magic. Michael Shou-Yung Shum has written a luminous and mesmerizing debut, a novel I couldn't put down." - Anne Valente, author of Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down > "Likable characters, a strong plot, and that most elusive of all qualities: a satisfying ending." - Michael Keefe, bookseller, Annie Bloom's Books " Queen of Spades is a paean to the deeply human thrill of gambling - part fond portrait of casino life, part poker-faced mysticism, part exploration of the risks we're willing to take in search of meaning. Michael Shum has imagined a world in which cosmic forces are at play, populated it with odd and charming seekers and turned them loose among the games of chance to seek their destinies. Like drawing just the right card to a longshot inside straight, what they find - and what we read - seems at once astonishing and dazzlingly preordained. A remarkable and original debut, rendered in impossibly lucid prose." - Michael Knight, author of Eveningland " Queen of Spades shimmers with suspense and a magical sense of forces just beyond our ken. Debut novelist Michael Shou-Yung Shum deftly deals hand after narrative hand, initiating the reader into the mysteries of the gambler's universe, its language, laws and gorgeous arcana. I felt I wasn't so much reading as leaning over a high-stakes gambling table as this quartet of vulnerable characters played for their lives. How will the cards fall? How will their lives transform? And who is the elegant and mysterious Countess who watches it all from her high-backed chair? An addictive and wholly satisfying reading experience." - Marjorie Sandor, editor of The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows "In Queen of Spades , many unlikely and uncanny events transpire, all against a brooding and moody Pacific Northwest somehow reminiscent of both Twin Peaks and Crime and Punishment. How has an American writer created a brand-new nineteenth-century Russian classic in 2016? His name is Michael Shou-Yung Shum, and he has." - Margaret Lazarus Dean, author of Leaving Orbit " Queen of Spades raises gambling to a metaphysics that reminds us being in the world is an amalgam of gratuitous rules, chance, danger, and faintly Borgesian sleights-of-hand. Many may read Shum's smart, fast, impressive debut as a how-to fiction about betting, but at the end of the day it's really all about the epistemologically and ontologically incomprehensible all the way down." - Lance Olsen, author of Dreamlives of Debris "
Synopsis
"Michael Shou-Yung Shum's Queen of Spades is a remarkable debut by an enormously talented young writer who has produced a literary delight that circles the dead center of a very dangerous pleasure--casino gambling. "--Frederick Barthelme, author of Bob the Gambler
LC Classification Number
PS3619.H857Q44 2017
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- e***j (91)- Feedback lasciato dall'acquirente.Ultimi 6 mesiAcquisto verificatoA rocky start after I had to NUDGE the Seller into checking on my order after MORE than a week with NOTHING happening... But Seller communication was GOOD and the item showed up, well packaged, within the delivery window. Item was well priced, and they had a series that I STRUGGLED to find elsewhere, in NEW condition. I would recommend this seller if you can't find it elsewhere, that's the best I can give them.Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers (Manga) Vol. 1 (N° 305350494827)
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