Love and Other Games of Chance Paperback - 2004
by Lee Siegel
The flamboyant hero of this zany, wildly comic novel is Isaac Schlossberg circus performer, entertainer, world traveler. The son of Jewish immigrants who arrived in America at the turn of the last century, Isaac spends his formative years in California, working sideshows, Wild West jamborees, and early films, before going on to India, England, Paris, Hollywood, and perhaps even to the top of Mt. Everest. Isaac organizes the tall tales of his past into one hundred chapters or squares like those on the children's game of Snakes and Ladders. As he travels, he moves through erotic love affairs with, among others, a Jewish tightrope walker, the daughter of a Hindu snake charmer, and a mystical British aviatrix. Raucous and inventive, this three-ring circus of a novel is at once silly and grand, absurd yet full of meaning.
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- Title Love and Other Games of Chance
- Author Lee Siegel
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Illustrated.
- Pages 418
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York, N. Y.
- Publication date February 24, 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780142003916 / 0142003913
- Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.16 x 0.91 in (23.42 x 15.65 x 2.31 cm)
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure fiction, Birthfathers
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002029635
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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