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Risky business : people, pastimes, poker and books
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Risky business : people, pastimes, poker and books

Author: A Alvarez
Publisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Essay : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises. One of the most influential post-war critics, he has written about writers and their craft for over fifty years. Risky Business is a selection of Alvarez's finest essays. Ranging from trenchant-literary criticism to accounts of polar expeditions and poker championships, it is a collection from our most unusual man of letters."--BOOK JACKET.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: A Alvarez
ISBN: 0747587442 9780747587446
OCLC Number: 71808244
Description: 409 p. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Al Alvarez.
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'If you want a reminder of what writing is really about, you have only to turn to an elegant little book of essays' Robert McCrum on The Writer's Voice 'Is there a more charming literary companion Read more...

 
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