HATS AND EYEGLASSES: A MEMOIR
Book ID/图书代码： 08284010B38195
English Summary/英文概要： Martha Frankel grew up in a warm, loving family of diehard gamblers, where her father’s poker games and her mother’s mah-jong blended happily with big pots of delicious food and endless gossip. As kids, she and her cousins bet on everything—from which of their Weight Watching mothers would lose the most to who could hold their breath longest underwater or eat the most matzo. But once Frankel left for college and later became a successful entertainment journalist, gambling didn’t factor much into her life. She thought her family legacy had passed her by.
In this “fast-paced and amazingly funny” (The Times- Picayune) memoir, Frankel traces her love affair with poker, an obsession that didn’t hit until her mid-forties. And she was good at poker. Frankel won routinely, whether she was playing in her Wednesday-night poker game or in one of the seedy, out-of-the-way rooms she always managed to find when on assignment. But all this changed when she discovered online poker. It was the beginning of what one of her uncles called “hats and eyeglasses,” a term used to describe those times when you’re losing so bad your ship is sinking until all that’s left on the water’s surface are your hat and eyeglasses. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hats & Eyeglasses is a tale of passion, addiction— and those times in life when we almost lose our shirt.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我的賭性人生！ Martha出生在一個溫暖，可愛但是很愛賭博的家庭。爸爸是撲克牌高手，媽媽則是常在麻將桌上用餐及談八卦，而她們小孩子則是用打賭來過日，所有事都可以用來賭，比方說賭誰憋氣最久、賭誰的媽媽能在一週內減掉多少重量、賭誰能吃最多的猶太麵包（猶太人在踰越節吃的未發酵的麵包，應該很難吃！）。
但是當她漸漸長大成大，感覺賭性基因好像越來越在她身上起不了作用，加上離開家人到外地念大學，更認為這個家族的特殊傳統應該不會在出現在她身上。
Martha從小在這樣的環境中長大，雖然不像家人具有如此堅強的賭性，但是她一下手，幾乎都會贏，自己果然還是家族的一份子，擁有賭博的天分，但是直到有一天偶然在網路上玩起線上撲克牌遊戲，這一切都變了…
作者是位擅長訪問他人的記者，這回他以自己的親生經歷述說一段有趣、真誠及大膽的賭徒回憶錄！(Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：Reviews:
"Fearless"---New York Post (Read the entire review: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/item_Suqa9kLv2jkyhGOlWmQcZL;jsessionid=BF9BE5B29FD09E7D4C849C5002C1BC9B)
“[This] Honest, funny betting memoir rises to the top... Frankel’s lively storytelling allows her to turn her own crapola into a winner.”---USA Today (Read the entire review: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2008-02-13-Frankel-hats-eyeglasses_N.htm)
"In five minutes you will feel not only as if you have known [Martha] all your life, but as if you still have one of her sweaters."---The New
"Funny and full of life."---Jane Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres
"A bluntly honest memoir of gambling addiction-harrowing, funny, and compulsively readable, straight through to the end."---John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
“Martha Frankel . . . proves in her intimate, exuberant memoir that even in the face of a gambling addiction, frank self-appraisal and an armload of hugs can sometimes win the day.”---O, The Oprah Magazine
About the Author/作者介绍： Martha Frankel，美國週刊《紐約客》The New Yorker娛樂線的記者，及《電影線上》Movieline中「好萊塢生活」Hollywood Life的專欄記者。曾榮獲「紐約藝術基金」New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFFA)頒發最佳創意非小說作品獎。2003年紐約州立大學（SUNY）邀請擔任Ulster學區的駐地作家，並在該學院教授回憶錄的寫作課程。http://www.marthafrankel.com/
Format:电子手稿
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