For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker

by Victoria Coren

Overview

Miserable at an elegant day school for girls, Victoria Coren finds an escape in the mysterious world of poker. Twenty years later, she has won a million dollars and forgotten to have children. What price adventure? This is a true story of happiness and heartbreak, smoke and mirrors, bright lights and shady characters. It is a memoir of friendship and belonging, love and loss. It might also teach you how to win a million . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847672933
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Publication date:	03/03/2011
Edition description:	Main
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Victoria Coren is a writer, broadcaster and poker player from London. She writes a topical column in The Observer, and this is her third book. She has presented Late Night Poker and The Poker Nations Cup on Channel 4 and series of general interest on BBC2, BBC Four and BBC Radio 4. Coren is a member of Team PokerStars Pro, with lifetime winnings of $1.5 million.

Editorial Reviews

Not only the best book about poker you are ever likely to read, but an outstanding memoir, lucid and moving, at times laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, never less than gripping and, quite simply, the best book I have read this year.

Tribune - Cary Gee

Fresh, funny and moving. Coren writes insightfully about love, obsession, depression and illness - and poker, obviously. This is a wonderful book, worthy of comparison with the best

Literary Review

Absorbing

Daily Telegraph

Vivid . . . Unflinchingly honest . . . A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards

Elle

A book so rich in detail, so full of laughter, that you feel as if the coolest member of your family has just let you in on a secret so delicious you will savour it for ever

The Times

Superb

Guardian

Vicky Coren...is funny, beautiful, clever and writes like an angel.

The Lady Magazine

[An] honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging

Financial Times

"Seizes the reader with its first sentence and never lets go. Victoria Coren writes, on several levels, with wit, honest, and perfect freshness."  —Martin Amis, author, Money: A Suicide Note

"I read this book in one righteous gulp . . .  faithful, epic, and true to every loveable miscreant she's faced across the green baize. I will pick up this book again and again." - Jesse May, author, Shut Up and Deal

"Terrifically funny and terribly moving. Vicky Coren plays cards like a demon and writes like an angel." - Patrick Marber, author, Closer

"Gripping, touching & funny. I loved it & I've never played poker."  —David Mitchell, author, Cloud Atlas

"A terrific poker book and a terrific memoir . . . engaging, lucid, full of verve and a pleasure to read . . . also really funny. These pages are crowded with fascinating people. There is also an unexpected resonance and depth. What more can you ask from a read?"  —Observer 

"Coren tells the story of her unorthodox rise to poker fame with wit, panache and considerable candour . . . It makes for a nail-biting read."  —Mail on Sunday

"Fresh, funny and moving. Coren writes insightfully about love, obsession, depression and illness—and poker."  —Literary Review

"With a beguiling blend of humour and honesty, shrewdness and candour, she wins the reader’s heart . . . an absorbing and unusual slice of autobiography."  —Daily Telegraph

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