Walter Tevis

The Hustler

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“If Hemingway had the passion for pool that he had for bullfighting, his hero might have been Eddie Felson” (Time).
The novel that inspired the classic film starring Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, The Hustler tells the story of Fast Eddie Felson, a young pool player who hustles suckers in small towns, looking for stake money so he can reach his goal: a marathon match in Chicago against Minnesota Fats.
An exploration of guts, stamina, and character, and of the difference between winners and losers, this tense, gritty tale is “a wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance” (Time Out).
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207 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
Publisher
RosettaBooks
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Quotes

  • Emily Morrenhas quoted6 years ago
    Is that the way you look at a man you’ve just beaten in a game of pool? As if you had just taken his money and now what you want is his pride
  • Emily Morrenhas quoted6 years ago
    And the aristocratic pleasure of seeing him fall apart
  • Emily Morrenhas quoted6 years ago
    To love the game itself is a fine thing; it is loving the art you live by. There are many things to love in the art—the excitement of it, the difficulty, the use of skill—but to work at it only for those would be to be like Findlay. To play pool you had to want to win and to want this without excuses and without self-deception. Only then did you have a right to love the game itself.
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