Documents concerning Rubashov the gambler : a novel
Vallgren, Carl-Johan2007
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St Petersburg, 1899. Obsessive gambler Rubashov has played every game in town. Finding himself on the brink of ruin, he decides to challenge the Devil to a poker game. Unsurprisingly he loses, the punishment being immortality. He now sees no end to what is already a miserable existence - until he discovers Russian roulette.
Main title:
Documents concerning Rubashov the gambler : a novel / Carl-Johan Vallgren ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death.
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London : Harvill Secker, 2007.
Collation:
300 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9781846550027 (hbk)1846550025 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.91839.7374
Language:
EnglishSwedish
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BRN:
2067195
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