Last Call
Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who...
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Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780380728466 (038072846X)
Publish date: December 1st 1996
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
Series: Fault Lines (#1)
Last Call by Tim Powers Book Reaction (not a full review) Last Call is a weird little alternate history that mixes poker with tarot. My ability to enjoy this book was probably impeded by the fact that the last time I played poker was in the fifth grade (we played for mechanical pencils), and ba...
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One of my favorite Powers books. Great story set in Las Vegas with lots of real-world-mysticism and some history of the city to boot. Based on legends of a Fisher King, and uses the chaos and luck surrounding vegas in new and unusual ways. (When the smoke at a poker table pools towards the middle an...
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