For Richer, For Poorer, 9781847672933
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High-stakes poker, love, and loss: what price adventure?

For Richer, For Poorer

Confessions of a Player

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2011

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Summary

Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure? This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. It is a memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. It might also teach you how to win a million …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781847672933
ISBN-10:1847672930
Author:Victoria Coren
Publisher:Canongate Books
Imprint:Canongate Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Edition:Main
Release Date:3 March 2011
Weight:236g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

  • A book so rich in detail, so full of laughter, that you feel as if the coolest member of your family has just let you in on a secret so delicious you will savour it for ever The Times * Vivid … Unflinchingly honest … A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards Elle * Superb Guardian * Fresh, funny and moving. Coren writes insightfully about love, obsession, depression and illness - and poker, obviously. This is a wonderful book, worthy of comparison with the best Literary Review * [An] honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging Financial Times * Absorbing Daily Telegraph * Vicky Coren…is funny, beautiful, clever and writes like an angel. The Lady Magazine * Not only the best book about poker you are ever likely to read, but an outstanding memoir, lucid and moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, never less than gripping and, quite simply, the best book I have read this year. – Cary Gee Tribune
About The Author

Victoria Coren

Victoria Coren is a writer, broadcaster and poker player from London. She writes a topical column in The Observer, and this is her third book. She has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup on Channel 4 and series of general interest on BBC2, BBC Four and BBC Radio 4. Coren is a member of Team PokerStars Pro, with lifetime winnings of $1.5 million.

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