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The Big Blind (Paperback)

by Louise Wener (Author)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Flame; New Ed edition (13 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340820322
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340820322
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 240,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A moving, often funny story of high stakes, lost love and finding your place in the world'

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'Combines laugh-out loud funny passages alongside sections that make you want to cry' (Independent )

'Great comic characters, and smart one-liners' (Observer )

'An uplifting, original tale' (Sunday Mirror )

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5.0 out of 5 stars A funny sad happy book, 20 May 2003
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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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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, 20 Sep 2004
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.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another good Summer!, 10 Sep 2003
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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. Louise keeps your fingers turning the pages with great ease. Audrey the main character takes you on a rollercoaster of emotions through the often dark underworld of poker.
I read her first novel last year which is also very entertaining.
Roll on number3.
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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. Read more
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