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Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss
Frederick and Steven Barthelme. Harvest Books: 2001 (paperback). ISBN: 0156010704. 198 pages.
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The authors of this memoir--writers, professors, best friends, and brothers to
the late literary giant Donald Barthelme--found themselves with a tiny gambling problem in the late nineties. Actually, more
like a very big giant nasty monster of a gambling problem, one that costs them over a quarter of a million dollars and their
professional reputations. The Barthelmes interweave the story of their addiction with the story of their beloved, insular
family, and the end result is a fascinating, starkly honest meditation on the nature of illusion, power, loss, and fear.
It's also strangely fun to see two academics running amuck in the "real" world populated with the other people-the kind who
hang out in casinos.
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