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“Beth Raymer’s crackling, hilarious memoir ricochets through the gambling underworld in Las Vegas, and is peopled with all manner of lovable wack-jobs, none of whom is quite as wacky—or lovable—as Raymer herself.”—Marie Claire   Beth Raymer waited tables at a dive in Las Vegas until a customer sent her to see Dink, of Dink Inc., one of the town’s biggest professional sports gamblers. Dink needed a right-hand man—someone who would show up on time, who had a head for numbers, and who didn’t steal. Beth got the job.   Lay the Favorite is the story of Beth’s years in the high-stakes, high-anxiety world of sports betting—a period that saw the fall of the local bookie and the birth of the freewheeling, unregulated offshore sports book, and with it the elevation of sports betting in popular culture. As the business explodes, Beth rises from assistant to expert, running an offshore booking office in the Caribbean. As the men around her succumb to their vices—money, sex, drugs, gambling—Beth improbably emerges with her integrity intact, wiser, sharper, nobody’s fool. A keen and compassionate observer of the adrenaline-addicted roguish types who become her mentors, her enemies, her family, Beth Raymer depicts an insanely colorful world teeming with pathos and ecstasy.   NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE   “Candid, smart, funny, wild and crazy.”—Elle   “Raymer gleefully shatters the myth of the modern gambler. . . . Seduced by her stories, we long for this strange, sleazy and alluring landscape.”—Los Angeles Times   “[Raymer depicts] a sordid, florid microworld lurching along the edge of society, not to mention legality. . . . She never condescends or indulges in reality-show caricature; she finds charm in the charmless, a point of light in the most lost of souls.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Lay the Favorite reads more like a novel than a memoir. The rich characters are drawn in depth, yet simply and honestly.”—The Wall Street Journal   “Entertaining (and often quite funny) . . . a delight to read.”—The New Yorker Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Reviews Discussion ... Middlesex has 494294 ratings and 20483 reviews. Trina said: I got off the bus from Bumbershoot around 1 AM exhausted. Convinced that even the cars spe... Lay the Favorite (2012) - IMDb LATEST HEADLINES. Two and a Half Men Vet Jon Cryer to Star in ABC Comedy Pilot Losing It 1 hours ago; Tom Hanks Meryl Streep to Star in Pentagon Papers Drama From ... New Music News Reviews Pictures and Videos - Rolling Stone Get the latest Rolling Stone new music news song and album reviews free music downloads artist videos & pictures playlists and more. TAMPA From Prohibition to Organized Crime of the 40s As the Cuban numbers became increasingly profitable many gambling brokers expanded their operations. In fact there were few places in Tampa where one ... Naked Women Dancing: A Strip Club Memoir - Men's Journal "Ive occasionally wondered if the raised platform the runway or stage in a strip club isn't inadvertently designed to pander to our first sexual feelings ... NEWS OF NOTE - Updated 2/22 - The Fix Is In Not to make light of the tragic death of Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez but wasn't it a given that the Marlins would win the very first game they played in the ... 3 Rules to Write World-Changing Memoir - The Write Practice I love memoir always have. Anne Lamott David Sedaris Annie Dillard even Stephen King. Theres something magical about the ability to transform ordinary ... Marco Rubio - Wikipedia Marco Antonio Rubio / r u b i o / (born May 28 1971) is an American politician and attorney and the junior United States Senator from Florida. Rubio ... Choctaw Games Mike Boucher's Web Page Bishinik February 1981 Page 6 & 7. Origins of the Choctaw People Retold from Old Legends. By Len Green. The ancient Choctaws played a number of games and apparently ... Entertainment - ABC News Get up to the minute entertainment news celebrity interviews celeb videos photos movies TV music news and pop culture on ABCNews.com.
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