Double Down (Paperback: Harvest: 208 pages)
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Product Details: Double Down
| Author: | Frederick Barthelme, Steve Barthelme, Steven Barthelme |
| Format: | Paperback: Harvest: 208 pages. |
| Publisher: | Harvest Books (05/01/2001) |
| ISBN: | 0156010704 |
| ISBN13: | 9780156010702 |
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Pro Reviews: Double Down
[A]s bizarre and costly as the Barthelme's legal ordeal certainly was (past tense: All charges were dismissed...), this is no mere cautionary tale. It's a brutally candid, unflattering self-portrait of two successful middle-aged menÂ…who managed, somehow, to sail through their adulthood behaving like 'overage children.'...DOUBLE DOWN is...an unsentimental, even edgy meditation on the loss of one's parents and the often crazy-making trauma of being orphaned in midlife.
It...talks perceptively and sometimes brilliantly of life, death, family, hope and despair, and money as an expression of these things. It is extremely melancholy and very, very disturbing.
Publisher Notes: Double Down
- "Double Down" is a true story, a terrifying roller-coaster ride deep into the heart of two men, and into the world of floating Gulf Coast casinos. When both of their parents died within a short time of each other, the writers Frederick and Steven Barthelme, both professors of English in Mississippi, inherited a goodly sum of money. What followed was a binge during which they gambled away their entire fortune-and more. And then, in a cruel twist of fate, they were charged with cheating at the tables.
Told with a mixture of sadness and wry humor, and with a compelling look at the physical aura of gambling-the feel of the cards, the smell of the crowd, the sounds of the tables-"Double Down" is a reflection on the lure of challenging the odds, the attraction of stepping into the void. A cautionary tale (the brothers were eventually exonerated), it is a book that, once read, will never be forgotten.
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