Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen: A Memoir - Hardcover

Adell, Sandra

 
9780984267101: Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen: A Memoir
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0984267107 ISBN 13: 9780984267101
Verlag: Eugenia Boks, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

This moving memoir describes how a black woman beat the odds stacked against her as a young and unwed teen mother from Detroit to become a professor at a major mid-western university only to risk losing everything she worked for after becoming addicted to slot machine gambling. The author renders her downward spiral into addiction and despair in such clear and unaffected prose that you'll think you were there in the casino watching her.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sandra Adell is a literature professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also is an actor and commercial print model. A native of Detroit, she resides in Madison, Wisconsin, and Chicago. A single parent, she has three children and three grandchildren.

Aus dem Klappentext

The global economic crisis deepens by the day, yet the gambling industry continues to rake in enormous profits as people everywhere pump billions of dollars into slot machines in the hope of winning the ever elusive jackpot. Sandra Adell s CONFESSIONS OF A SLOT MACHINE QUEEN: A MEMOIR offers an intimate look into problem and compulsive casino gambling and the impact the casino industry is having on vulnerable communities, especially poor and working class people, the disabled, communities of color, and women?the fastest growing population of problem gamblers in the United States. Adell s narrative of gambling and loss unfolds against her history as an unwed and uneducated teen mother from Detroit who beat the odds stacked against her and went on to earn a Ph.D. and a coveted position as a literature professor in a major Midwestern university. In a clear and unaffected prose style, Adell describes how she went from having no interest in gambling to risking everything she had worked for after playing the slots and winning a small jackpot. We watch as she struggles against the lure of the slots only to get seduced time and again until she finally spirals out of control and is forced to confront the demons that lay beneath the surface of her professional persona. Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen is as much a story of redemption as it is a critical examination of the casino gambling industry and the potential dangers of this new and high-tech form of entertainment.

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Verlag
Eugenia Boks
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0984267107
ISBN 13 
9780984267101
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
161
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