- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Flame (4 Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340820314
- ISBN-13: 978-0340820315
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,126,669 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'An uplifting, original tale' - Sunday Mirror
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‘A warm and funny debut by a proper writer’
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
That's what this is: a funny, sad, happy book. Probably it would have been easy for her to do another book set in the area she knows, music, but instead she has branched out into something different, into poker, the sort found in family backrooms and dingy flats and the internet. Her heroine is unusual, a woman who sorts her peas into prime number groups, and has a background note of loss in her life from her father, missing, presumed playing poker. Wener is constantly readable; sometimes the chapters are short, bite-sized gulps, sometimes big pieces you bite off, but always page-turning. And she's especially good at describing the texture of real life, the gritty detail that makes up any day.. or night.
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Audrey Ungar is the unlikely but incredible heroine of 'The Big Blind'. She eats pickles from the jar and sorts her peas into prime numbers. Audrey dreams of seeing her father again; a man who jeopardised everything, including his family, to become a professional gambler.
Around the same time Audrey meets Big Louie, an American agoraphobic with OCD, who hasn't left his flat for two years. The two of them hit it off and Louie begins to teach Audrey how to play poker.
This is a great novel, at times funny and others heartbreaking. It's a tale of unlikely friendships, poker, interests and obsessions and the extent to which family defines who we are.
I loved it.
Around the same time Audrey meets Big Louie, an American agoraphobic with OCD, who hasn't left his flat for two years. The two of them hit it off and Louie begins to teach Audrey how to play poker.
This is a great novel, at times funny and others heartbreaking. It's a tale of unlikely friendships, poker, interests and obsessions and the extent to which family defines who we are.
I loved it.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Finished this an hour ago & had to come on here to write a review, what an excellent book. I laughed & had a few tears roll down my cheeks too. I am a Texas Hold'em player, although when I bought the book I actually didn't realise it was about poker as I didn't read the back cover.
Her characters are superb, everyone of them a "real" person. I really can't recommend this book enough, probably one of my favourites. Whether you play poker or not (for me it was just an huge bonus) this is a moving & funny book and very very well written.
Her characters are superb, everyone of them a "real" person. I really can't recommend this book enough, probably one of my favourites. Whether you play poker or not (for me it was just an huge bonus) this is a moving & funny book and very very well written.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Expectations Dashed
I'm not sure what I expected when I ordered a copy. No, wait, I am. I thought it'd be awful. I thought, "How can someone who strums a guitar and wah wah wah's into a mic (albeit,... Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2007 by Redoxon
Another good Summer!
Wener comes up trump's again(pardon the pun).
Just finished The Big Blind and can safely say to anyone thinking of buying it, don't hesitate. Read more
Just finished The Big Blind and can safely say to anyone thinking of buying it, don't hesitate. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2003 by "scotth752"
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