Last Call
By Tim Powers
Read by Bronson Pinchot
The Fault Lines Series: Book 1
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ISBN: 9781482132083
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ISBN: 9781441757364
Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he could ever imagine depends on the turning of a card. Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, this World Fantasy Award–winning novel is a masterpiece of magic realism set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas.
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Summary
Summary
Winner of the 1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Winner of the 1993 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
A 1993 Mythopoeic Award Nominee
Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he could ever imagine depends on the turning of a card.
Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, this World Fantasy Award–winning novel is a masterpiece of magic realism set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Reviews
Reviews
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High-stakes poker, tarot, and gods in the desert
- I very much enjoyed another Pinchot-Powers works, On Stranger Tides, and found this one every bit as enjoyable, if not more so. Powers sets his Secret History sights on the early days of the Vegas strip, and connects the dots between Tarot and high-stakes (the highest stakes) poker, with archetypal gods and goddesses and their orbits along the way. Quite fantastic, and Pinchot nails the dry desert and California voices, along with the subtle Francophone accents. One down note seems to be a theme with my listens of Pinchot so far, in that his voices for women tend quite strongly to the too-soft to the point of coloring them as more helpless and inactive characters than the text sets out. But that absolutely should not stop anyone from checking out this audiobook.
Author
Author Bio: Tim Powers
Tim Powers is the author of numerous novels, including Last Call, Declare, Three Days to Never, and On Stranger Tides, the inspiration for the blockbuster film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz. He has received the Locus, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick awards. He lives in San Bernardino, California.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Science Fiction |
| Runtime: | 19.57 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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