Download or read book The Gambler s Apprentice written by H. Lee Barnes and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gambler’s Apprentice tells the story of a teenage boy growing up in Texas during desperate times. Willy, wise and capable beyond his years, learns the gambler’s trade and experiences adventures that demand quick wits—and sometimes violent actions. This is a multilayered story, full of Old West motifs such as cattle-rustling and gunfights along with more modern twists. Starting with a cattle-rustling scheme involving his father, Willy embarks on a life of crime early, eventually landing in a Laredo jail for shooting a man. During his incarceration he meets Sonny Archer, an itinerant gambler, who teaches Willy how to be a cardsharp. Upon his release, Willy roams the country, honing his new talent and getting into more trouble. During his time in New Orleans, Willy even winds up in a confrontation with an Italian crime ring. While all these adventures mold Willy into a clever card player and a masterful fortune-hunter, his grand ambition to be a professional gambler is thwarted when the influenza epidemic strikes. Willy is forced to return home to his family’s Texas ranch, where he faces the most challenging test of his young life and begins to prove that he is far more than simply an apprentice.
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Download or read book A Life so Good written by Ronald Russell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is my life story, inspired by my grandchildrens need to have the complete story for themselves and future generations. It is a story of growing up in a small coal-mining town into young adulthood, where alcohol started to become a part of my life, then of my journeys around the world and throughout Australia. A story of relationships and children being caught up in the exciting highs and devastating lows brought on by the effects of alcohol and drug addiction to finally emerging into an insanity that, through suicidal thoughts, led to an enlightenment few get to experience. It is a story where one can see in hindsight that this journey has always had the support of a power greater than myself.
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Download or read book A Life so Good Revisited written by Ronald Russell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story that leads from growing up in a small country town into adulthood and the darkest depths of hell and insanity and out the other side to a wonderful life, completely free from the past, to an enlightenment few get to experience. It is a journey, which is not really a journey but a gradual awakening, as to how the God of his understanding has been with him throughout. The following is a review of the first book, A Life So Good: An Australian memoir as good as any Tim Winton novel. A raw and very poignant memoir. The authors ability to strip back his life without embellishments keeps the story real. The narrative is driven at a lively pace through his ability to create effortless movement through time. He carries the reader along as if on his shoulders, such is the caring nature of this sensitive man who suffered the pain and indignity of an addiction to alcohol. A life which so far spans some seventy years and is condensed into this 174 page story makes for easy lively reading. How can one man accomplish so much in the face of such adversity? It is more than a story of hope as he demonstrates that if your heart is good there are people in this great country of ours willing to give you a go. Its a not a love story but a story of love and the surprising way you can find yourself through love (Leanne Esposito, October 31, 2015).
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Download or read book A Gambler s Instinct written by Milly S. Barranger and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Barranger traces Crawford’s career as an independent producer, she tells the parallel story of American theater in the mid-twentieth century, making A Gambler’s Instinct both an enjoyable and informative biography of a remarkable woman and an important addition to the literature of the modern theater.
