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In this stylish and complex memoir, Laymon, an English professor at the University of Mississippi and novelist (Long Division), presents bittersweet episodes of being a chubby outsider in 1980s Mississippi. He worships his long-suffering, resourceful grandmother, who loves the land her relatives farmed for generations and has resigned herself to the fact of commonplace bigotry. Laymon laces the memoir with clever, ironic observations about secrets,...
2) Uncut gems
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Criterion collection volume 1101
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This jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline affirmed directors Josh and Benny Safdie as heirs to the gritty, heightened realism of Martin Scorsese and John Cassavetes. Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweler in relentless pursuit of the next big score. When he comes into possession of a rare opal, it seems Howard's ship has finally come in as long as he can stay one step ahead of...
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Times Square is all a bustle with petty crooks, lazy cops, and especially, gamblers. Gamblers are everywhere, but Nathan Detroit--who maintains the "Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"--Is short the $1000 he needs to secure a site for a fleet of big players coming into town. Nathan's other problem is his burlesque showgirl fiancée, Miss Adelaide. Her fourteen-year long engagement and Nathan's failure to give up the gambling...
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Wallflowers vs. rogues volume 2
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Forced to marry gambler Ash Ellis to keep her beloved vineyards, Lady Henrietta Prince finds that all bets are off when his kisses are more intoxicating than the finest of wines even though he will never have her trust.
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It's the Moore the merrier as Jack Kelly teams up with new cast member Roger Moore for the fourth rollicking season of Maverick. Faces may change, but the card and con games remain the same, as Beau Maverick deals himself in with his cousin Bart, and they take on murder frame-ups, crooked sheriffs, cursed goldmines, comely witches, and more in the complete 32-episode collection. Featuring appearances by spaghetti western icon Lee Van Cleef and Oscar-winner...
6) Easy money
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Monty Capuletti is a middle-class slob who'd rather be out boozing, gambling, and cavorting with his buddies than working at his job as a baby photographer. But suddenly, his mother-in-law dies, leaving him a huge inheritance if, within one year, he can stop drinking, smoking, and gambling ... and weigh in at a trim 175 pounds.
7) Honky tonk
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"Con artist Candy Johnson has been run out of town after town. Then he got wise. He went out and got a town of his own: Yellow Creek, Nevada. The title honkey tonk is the Square Deal Saloon, where Candy and poker-playing sidekick Sniper cut cards -- but not the liquor. The colorful townfolk include a Justice of the Peace who's good pals with John Barleycorn, a fiery do-gooder, a long-suffering dance hall girl and a law-unto-himself sheriff"--Container....
9) The odds
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After an evening of massive losses playing slot machines, Ethan Caustin wonders how he's going to explain things to his wife and kids. As he's leaving the casino, he is approached by a stranger who offers a solution, which is a simple game with a 99% chance for him to win ten thousand dollars. If he loses, however, he'll be strapped into a device that shatters his left arm. As the game goes on, the prizes and penalties keep changing, along with his...
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