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<p><P>In an engrossing novel about fate, luck, and obsession, a struggling academic from Philadelphia marries a beautifully dangerous Vegas blackjack dealer, and when his controversial theory about economics is put to the test, his entire life is put on the line.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Writing about gambling, chance and fate, Legendre takes a bold risk, wagering an enjoyable if predictable bloke-lit debut against the egghead novel of ideas that it becomes-and he pulls it off. Fresh out of graduate school, economist Logan Smith joins a couple of friends for a weekend in Las Vegas, where he falls for troubled, needy blackjack dealer Dallas Cole. A few months later, Logan is a professor at Arizona State University, and Dallas is his uneasy new wife. Moving from the trials of a marriage's first year to the rarified world of academia, Legendre makes Logan's life of the mind every bit as stimulating as the human drama that surrounds it, providing Logan's neo-Marxist theories with resonance and real stakes. Legendre's fully realized characters, longing for something other than what they have-other lovers, other careers, other political realities-render vividly the weight of Ameri

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Author

Legendre, Thomas

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316153805

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (3,416 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14