| Author: | Lisa Pasold | ISBN: | 9781311621719 |
| Publisher: | Lisa Pasold | Publication: | March 9, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lisa Pasold |
| ISBN: | 9781311621719 |
| Publisher: | Lisa Pasold |
| Publication: | March 9, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Millard Lacouvy is a short, stylish, fiercely independent poker prodigy. As a child, her card skills are considerable, but she sharpens them to a knife's edge in the back room of a Depression-era Vancouver saloon. She finds romance, love and tragedy among the con men and petty gamblers of Vancouver’s east-side underworld of the 1930s. As she struggles for respect in the masculine gambling world, she realizes that, to make the most of her talent, she needs to ‘up her game’. She lands a seat at high-stake poker games on the luxurious trains of the Canadian Pacific Railway which roll slowly through the peaks of the Rocky Mountains. As she fights the odds, she finally decides to head south, to what she hopes will be her dream home--the new gambler’s paradise, Las Vegas, a single casino strip in the middle of the desert. But even Vegas is no escape from her past. Haunted by the handsome con man she has known all her life, Millard knows that love can also be a game of chance. Card-playing monkeys, fast shiny cars, handsome con men, the green felt of the poker table, and the fabulous neon of the Flamingo Casino light up the pages of Rats of Las Vegas.
Rats of Las Vegas is "enticing as the lit-up Las Vegas strip and as satisfying as a winning hand at poker" - The Winnipeg Free Press
Craig Davidson, author of Rust and Bone says, "I cannot recommend the book enough. Poker, boxing, Las Vegas, those Depression-era details captured so well...what's not to love, I tell you? Nothing. It's all good. You ought to buy a copy, or steal one, or get it at the library, or go camp outside Lisa's house and buy a copy from her personally. Really, you should."
Dave Williamson, in Prairie Fire Magazine, writes, "Millard Lacouvy, the first-person narrator and main protagonist of Lisa Pasold's engrossing first novel...is one of the feistiest young women in recent Canadian fiction. RATS OF LAS VEGAS is first and foremost a good yarn about a solitary woman asserting herself in a man's world--not through glamour or sex but through sheer wits and determination."
Millard Lacouvy is a short, stylish, fiercely independent poker prodigy. As a child, her card skills are considerable, but she sharpens them to a knife's edge in the back room of a Depression-era Vancouver saloon. She finds romance, love and tragedy among the con men and petty gamblers of Vancouver’s east-side underworld of the 1930s. As she struggles for respect in the masculine gambling world, she realizes that, to make the most of her talent, she needs to ‘up her game’. She lands a seat at high-stake poker games on the luxurious trains of the Canadian Pacific Railway which roll slowly through the peaks of the Rocky Mountains. As she fights the odds, she finally decides to head south, to what she hopes will be her dream home--the new gambler’s paradise, Las Vegas, a single casino strip in the middle of the desert. But even Vegas is no escape from her past. Haunted by the handsome con man she has known all her life, Millard knows that love can also be a game of chance. Card-playing monkeys, fast shiny cars, handsome con men, the green felt of the poker table, and the fabulous neon of the Flamingo Casino light up the pages of Rats of Las Vegas.
Rats of Las Vegas is "enticing as the lit-up Las Vegas strip and as satisfying as a winning hand at poker" - The Winnipeg Free Press
Craig Davidson, author of Rust and Bone says, "I cannot recommend the book enough. Poker, boxing, Las Vegas, those Depression-era details captured so well...what's not to love, I tell you? Nothing. It's all good. You ought to buy a copy, or steal one, or get it at the library, or go camp outside Lisa's house and buy a copy from her personally. Really, you should."
Dave Williamson, in Prairie Fire Magazine, writes, "Millard Lacouvy, the first-person narrator and main protagonist of Lisa Pasold's engrossing first novel...is one of the feistiest young women in recent Canadian fiction. RATS OF LAS VEGAS is first and foremost a good yarn about a solitary woman asserting herself in a man's world--not through glamour or sex but through sheer wits and determination."
