Buscavidas, El - S Tevis Walter
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A timeless story that portrays a man's internal struggle to regain his pride. For Eddie Felson "the fast" there is only one thing in the world: winning at pool. For years he has traveled the country from one end to the other, traveling from one dive to another, between glasses of whiskey and tobacco smoke, living poorly in dives and fleecing unwary players who think they can beat him. But he yearns for something bigger. Tired of stumbling from here to there competing for a few dollars, he decides to challenge the best player in the country: the Fat Man from Minnesota. In a game that will last…mehr

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A timeless story that portrays a man's internal struggle to regain his pride. For Eddie Felson "the fast" there is only one thing in the world: winning at pool. For years he has traveled the country from one end to the other, traveling from one dive to another, between glasses of whiskey and tobacco smoke, living poorly in dives and fleecing unwary players who think they can beat him. But he yearns for something bigger. Tired of stumbling from here to there competing for a few dollars, he decides to challenge the best player in the country: the Fat Man from Minnesota. In a game that will last almost twenty-four hours, Eddie will realize that being good is not enough and will suffer the biggest defeat of his career. He will then embark on a journey to the end of the night, dominated by alcoholism and pride, and will have to face his own demons to have the last chance to be the best again. Adapted to the cinema in 1961 by Robert Rossen, with memorable performances by Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason, The Hustler is a novel of overwhelming humanity, where the true challenge, in the game and in life, is to decipher one's own identity.
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Walter Tevis (1928-1984) fue un uno de los grandes escritores estadounidenses de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Sus relatos cortos, que comenzó a escribir en los años cincuenta, se publicaron en revistas como The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Redbook, Cosmopolitan y Playboy. También publicó cinco novelas: El buscavidas (1959, Impedimenta, 2025) -que saltaría a la gran pantalla en 1961-, El hombre que cayó a la Tierra (1963), Sinsonte (1980; Impedimenta, 2022), Gambito de Dama (1983), Las huellas del sol (1983; Impedimenta, 2023) y El color del dinero (1984). En 2023 se publicó una antología de sus relatos, bajo el título de The King is Dead, que pronto será publicada por Impedimenta. Walter Tevis murió a los cincuenta y ocho años en Nueva York debido a un cáncer de pulmón.