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Title	:	The Hustler
Author	:	Walter Tevis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	December 31st 2002 by Da Capo Press (first published 1959)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Mystery

The Hustler Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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"A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance."-Time Out


When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first--and the best--novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an audience for the movie with the same name starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The Hustler is about the victories and losses of one "Fast" Eddie Felson, a poolroom hustler who travels from town to town conning strangers into thinking they could beat him at the game when in fact, he is a skillful player who has never lost a game. Until he meets his match in Minnesota Fats, the true king of the poolroom, causing his life to change drastically. This is a classic tale of a man's struggle with his soul and his self-esteem.




"If Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson."-Time

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Original Title:	The Hustler
ISBN:	1560254734 (ISBN13: 9781560254737)
Edition Language:	English

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Fast Eddie Felson, a brilliant young pool hustler, travels from California to Chicago to take on the best player in the country: Minnesota Fats. Will the young up and comer beat the old pro? Of course - theres no story otherwise! And thats about my only criticism of Walter Tevis The Hustler: the predictability of the story. Ive been trying to pin down why I didnt outright love this book like The Queens Gambit and I think thats the only aspect of it that sticks in my brain craw: you can see the

Can't believe I haven't read this until now. I've always loved the movie, and I've had a swell pocket-sized Dell paperback of the book hanging around for about fifteen years. Finally picked it up two days ago and tore through it. A perfect, beautiful little novel. Loaded with great characters, but Sarah, the alcoholic grad student, might be my favorite--She has a picture of a sad clown up on her wall and that's tough to top.

Though I've never seen the film adaptation of The Hustler, I suspect (or at least hope) it's considerably better than the book. The story is somewhat interesting, but all of the characters are fairly one-dimensional and I really disliked the protagonist. The writing style is very spare, somewhat like Steinbeck or Hemingway, but not nearly of that caliber. At very rare moments, it has the almost poetic feel of good Hemingway, but it's, mostly unremarkable or even bad. The author seems to be more

Excellent book. The hardest decision to make is in deciding which story has more pathos; in the film she dies, in the book she lives on as a lush.

Fast Eddie Felson, a brilliant young pool hustler, travels from California to Chicago to take on the best player in the country: Minnesota Fats. Will the young up and comer beat the old pro? Of course - theres no story otherwise! And thats about my only criticism of Walter Tevis The Hustler: the predictability of the story. Ive been trying to pin down why I didnt outright love this book like The Queens Gambit and I think thats the only aspect of it that sticks in my brain craw: you can see the

You probably know the story of The Hustler from the 1961 Paul Newman movie of the same name. Its the tale of small time pool hustler Eddie Felson who wants to move from the small time to the big time by playing the best pool player, Minnesota Fats. He loses to Fats, falls for a woman, gets his thumbs broken, is taught how to win by gambler Bert, and has a rematch with Fats. Its all there, the pleasure comes in the prose of Tevis writing.The prose is sepia tinged as it should be for the world its