SUMMARYįollowing Coren’s introduction to the game as a teenager, this book delivers all the juicy stories that even a none poker player would thoroughly enjoy. Coren’s excellent style of writing and sense of humor adds more success.
In simpler terms, she has expressed the inner soul of the game through her book. Victoria has used beautiful phrases of literature in the book. Holding back nothing, she has described her relationship to poker with great openness. In this true story, Victoria Coren wonderfully expressed heartbreak, friendship, love, and loss. A story of happiness and heartbreak, a memoir of friendship and belongingness, For Richer and For Poorer: A Love Affair With Poker by Victoria Coren could eventually make you fall in love with its story. It presents a transition of a woman poker player from a novice to a champion. 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.The structure of this book is chronological throughout Coren’s life. Vicky Coren.is funny, beautiful, clever and writes like an angel. honest, funny, highly personal and nostalgic memoir about friendship and belonging * * Financial Times * * This is a wonderful book, worthy of comparison with the best * * Literary Review * *
Coren writes insightfully about love, obsession, depression and illness - and poker, obviously. A compulsive read which may well leave you reaching for a pack of cards * * Elle * *įresh, funny and moving. 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 * *
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