Silver State Stories
Silver State Stories
Silver State Stories
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Description
Description
Amidst the casinos of Reno, Nevada, the "Biggest Little City in the World," Michael Darcher introduces us to the dealers, workers, and patrons of the Aces Oasis Casino. Like Leonard, a blackjack dealer who makes earrings out of flies meant for fishing; James, a craps dealer who falls in love with Phyllis in a bad year for relationships; Liz, a blackjack dealer who struggles with how big a part she played in a player's suicide; and Gessler, a slots worker who reckons with his girlfriend Polly's charge to be more. Darcher's steady, assured, and compassionate prose shows us more than high rollers and underbellies. He gives us real people.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Exquisitely funny, wry, and tender. This book is hard to put down."
-Corrina Wycoff, author of Damascus House
"Colorful and poetic, funny and humane."
-Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
"The Silver State Stories gets Nevada and its people exactly right."
-Christopher Coake, author of You Would Have Told Me Not To
"Unstinting insight and a masterful sense of particularity."
-Peter Donahue, author of Three Sides Water
"Darcher uncovers the true euphoria and desperation of human nature one pull, one roll, one wager at a time."
-Michael Czyzniejewski, author of The Amnesiac in the Maze
"Polished, funny, at times unnerving."
-Barry Kitterman, author of The Baker's Boy
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