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**__The Noble Hustle__ is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead’s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as “__Eat, Pray, Love__ for depressed shut-ins.”** On one level, __The Noble Hustle__ is a familiar species of participatory journalism--a longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online online magazine Grantland to see how far he could get in the World Series of Poker. But since it stems from the astonishing mind of Colson Whitehead (MacArthur Award-endorsed!), the book is a brilliant, hilarious, weirdly profound, and ultimately moving portrayal of--yes, it sounds overblown and ridiculous, but really!--the human condition. After weeks of preparation that included repeated bus trips to glamorous Atlantic City, and hiring a personal trainer to toughen him up for sitting at twelve hours a stretch, the author journeyed to the gaudy wonderland that is Las Vegas – the world’s greatest “Leisure Industrial Complex” -- to try his luck in the multi-million dollar tournament. Hobbled by his mediocre playing skills and a lifelong condition known as “anhedonia” (the in

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Author

Whitehead, Colson

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385537063

Category

humor

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Anthropology

Rating

3.29 / 5 (1,270 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14