Last Call - Softcover

Powers, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038072846X ISBN 13: 9780380728466

Publisher: Avon A, 1996

Synopsis

Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers.

Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.

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Review

"Dazzling . . . a tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly."--Dean Koontz

"There's never been a novel quite like DECLARE...one of the protean Powers's most absorbing and rewarding creations."--Kirkus Starred Review

"Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Declare's occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly imagined."--William Gibson

"DECLARE is classic Tim Powers, his best novel since Last Call, and possibly his best to date."--Locus Magazine

"Highly ingenious . . . No one else writes like Powers, and Declare finds him at the top of his game."--San Francisco Chronicle

Dazzling . . . a tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly. --Dean Koontz"

There s never been a novel quite like DECLARE one of the protean Powers s most absorbing and rewarding creations. --Kirkus Starred Review"

Highly ingenious . . . No one else writes like Powers, and Declare finds him at the top of his game. --San Francisco Chronicle"

DECLARE is classic Tim Powers, his best novel since Last Call, and possibly his best to date. --Locus Magazine"

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Declare s occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly imagined. --William Gibson"

From the Back Cover

Las Vegas 1990. Scott Crane has lost his family, his job and, he suspects, his reason for living. All he has left are the escape of heavy drinking and the dangerous thrill of high stakes poker. But things are about to get worse. Much worse. Soon he's haunted by his dead wife, on the run from malicious manifestations and plagued by vague feelings that he sold his soul when he was a little child. The Fisher King – a godlike lord of the wasteland – is at work and he wants what's owed. He wants the

LAST CALL

Chaos mathematics, tarot, gambling for mortal stakes, Arthurian legend, Egyptian mythology, bloody murder and a plot that runs on overdrive till the last call is answered. A dazzling, terrifying encounter with the dark imagination of Tim Powers . . .

"Brilliant! Compelling! 'Last Call' is his best book yet"
RAYMOND E. FEIST

"A powerful and satisfyingly surprising NOVEL. Powers is, as we have come to expect, still expertly hurting his protagonists"
INTERZONE

"Powers has established himself as a unique, surprising voice . . . 'Last Call' is a grand tour de force which fills the senses and elicits laughter and tears"
NEW YORK REVIEW OF SCIENCE FICTION

"The best fantasy writer to appear in decades"
THE GUARDIAN

Edition details

• Publisher: Avon A
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038072846X
• ISBN 13: 9780380728466
• Binding: Paperback