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

The Hustler Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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

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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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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

Ok, I hate pool, see? My Dad hustled pool and we ended up with mysterious appliances that he said "fell off of a truck". And a lot of Keebler's cookies. But I digress: Walter Tevis is a genius novellist. Every word so precisely chosen, so put in just the right place, the plot effortless and the dialogue just perfect. Characters? Don't even get me started.

For some reason that I'm not aware of at the time of purchase, I've only been reading first novels these days. First, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, followed by Less Than Zero, on to The Secret History and finally this one, Tevis's first, inspired by his working at a poolhall. I'm not sure why I've been subconsciously doing this, but it must mean something. And all in all, every work is about as different in every way as possible, as just as good as the next.I have to agree with a former reviewer

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

The Hustler is pretty close to perfect. And better for your morale than a half-dozen self help books, chased with a handful of Xanax. When I started reading it I had twenty dollars to my name, now I have five (the book wasn't free), and all the secrets to the universe."It's always nice to feel the risks fall off your back. And winning; that can be heavy on your back too, like a monkey. You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse. Then, afterward, all you got to do is learn to feel



The eye opening book.