Hats & Eyeglasses: A Memoir |  | Author: Martha Frankel
Publisher: Tarcher
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
ASIN: B002PJ4FY6
Publication Date: February 11, 2009
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Martha Frankel grew up in a warm, loving family of diehard gamblers, where her fathers poker games and her mothers mah-jongg blended happily with big pots of delicious food and endless gossip. As kids, she and her cousins bet on everythingfrom which of their Weight Watching mothers would lose the most to who could hold their breath longest underwater or eat the most matzo. But once Frankel left for college and later became a successful entertainment journalist, gambling didnt factor much into her life. She thought her family legacy had passed her by.
In this fast-paced and amazingly funny (The Times- Picayune) memoir, Frankel traces her love affair with poker, an obsession that didnt hit until her mid-forties. And she was good at poker. Frankel won routinely, whether she was playing in her Wednesday-night poker game or in one of the seedy, out-of-the-way rooms she always managed to find when on assignment. But all this changed when she discovered online poker. It was the beginning of what one of her uncles called hats and eyeglasses, a term used to describe those times when youre losing so bad your ship is sinking until all thats left on the waters surface are your hat and eyeglasses. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hats & Eyeglasses is a tale of passion, addiction and those times in life when we almost lose our shirt.
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