POKER FACE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　“The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games
they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any
other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman Capote
　　Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East
Coast boarding school where her father taught English, her mother
retreated into crosswords and scotch, and her much older siblings
played “grown-up” games like gin rummy and chess. But Katy faced
much more than the typical trials of childhood. Within the confines
of the Lederer household an unlikely transformation was brewing,
one that would turn this darkly intellectual and game-happy group
into a family of professional gamblers.
　　Poker Face is Katy Lederer’s perceptive account of her family’s
lively history. From the long kitchen table where her mother played
what seemed an endless game of solitaire, to the seedy New York
bars where her brother first learned to play poker, to the
glamorous Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, where her sister and
brother wager hundreds of thousands of dollars a night at the
tables, Lederer takes us on a tragicomic journey through a world
where intelligence and deceit are used equally as currency. Not
since Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood has a writer
cast such a witty and astringently analytic eye on the demands of
growing up.
　　An unflinching exploration of trust and betrayal, competition,
suspicion, and unconventional familial love, Poker Face is a
testament to the human spirit’s inventiveness when faced with
unusually difficult odds.