The Hustler by Walter Tevis

The Hustler by Walter Tevis

››› Download audio book for free. ‹‹‹ Original Title: The Hustler ISBN: 1560254734 ISBN13: 9781560254737 Autor: Walter Tevis Rating: 4 of 5 stars (1545) counts Original Format: Paperback, 224 pages Download Format: PDF, DJVU, iBook, MP3. Published: December 31st 2002 / by Thunder's Mouth Press / (first published 1959) Language: English Genre(s): Fiction- 31 users Mystery- 6 users Classics- 5 users Novels- 5 users Literature >American- 4 users Literature >20th Century- 4 users

Description: When it was first published in 1959, The Hustler was the first—and the best—novel written about billiards in the 400-year history of the game. The book quickly won a respected readership and later an audience for the movie with the same name starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The Hustler is about the victories and losses of one "Fast" Eddie Felson, a poolroom hustler who travels from town to town conning strangers into thinking they could beat him at the game when in fact, he is a skillful player who has never lost a game. Until he meets his match in Minnesota Fats, the true king of the poolroom, causing his life to change drastically. This is a classic tale of a man's struggle with his soul and his self-esteem. "If Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson."—Time "A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance."—Time Out

About Author:

Walter Stone Tevis was an American novelist and short story writer. Three of his six novels were adapted into major films: The Hustler, The Color of Money and The Man Who Fell to Earth. His books have been translated into at least 18 languages.

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Rewiews:

Jul 17, 2015 Tfitoby Rated it: really liked it Shelves: lit “When the bottles hit they tinkled and jangled noisily; but Eddie did not hear them because of the overriding - yet distant, detached, far-off - sound of his own screaming.” I saw The Hustler for the first time recently, I love the atmosphere and the mood that drifts from nihilism to hope, Paul Newman struggling with the anger and hatred inside of himself in between long silent brooding takes. And I knew within the first chapter of reading the words of Walter Tevis that all of it stemmed from her “When the bottles hit they tinkled and jangled noisily; but Eddie did not hear them because of the overriding - yet distant, detached, far-off - sound of his own screaming.”

I saw The Hustler for the first time recently, I love the atmosphere and the mood that drifts from nihilism to hope, Paul Newman struggling with the anger and hatred inside of himself in between long silent brooding takes. And I knew within the first chapter of reading the words of Walter Tevis that all of it stemmed from here. “We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.” This comes from the work of Alfred Hayes and it could quite easily have been written about Fast Eddie and his companions on the outskirts of society but at the heart of pool hustling in Chicago. The subject matter is treated without hysteria, without glamour, nobody really attempts to demonstrate that there's a better or more moral life out there somewhere, like the very best books of its kind there is no other world for these characters, you hustle pool or you stop living it's that simple and Tevis doesn't think so little of his readers that he feels the need to tack on a happy ending either. This is an elegant, beautifully written novel with flawed, fully realised characters, there's no good guys, there's no bad guys, there's just guys. And Sarah. 14 likes