In Paul Lyons' tight, measured first novel, the protagonist Andy Hessel, plays pool, but as a middle-class white kid, he's an odd fixture among the street-smart black players...Paul Lyons has written... This description may be from another edition of this product.
A gem of a novel on pool-hall cool and urban male passages.
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This remains a gem of a novel on pool-hall cool and urban male passages. Witty and adept,this multi-talented author (now out in the Pacific) colorfully and poised like a pool hall Buddha captures one NYC neighborhood world and its enduring attractions, terrors, and male initiation rites with anthropological poise, transient exactitude,and the bliss of an ex-insider.
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