Volume 47, Number 4 · March 9, 2000
High Rollers
By Al Alvarez
Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss
by Frederick Barthelme, by Steven Barthelme
Houghton Mifflin, 198 pp., $24.00
In the space of a couple of crazy years, the brothers Frederick and Steven Barthelme, respected writers though by no means in the big time, managed to blow more than a quarter of a million dollars in the Mississippi gambling boats. Double Down is their account of how this happened, what led up to it and spurred them on, and how it ended in tears when, as a final insult, the casino which had taken their money charged them with conspiracy to cheat.
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