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’ s Gambit? Even though the 1983 novel – the basis for the hit Netflix miniseries – has recently become a paperback bestseller, the name of its author isn t half as well known as it should be. Yet Walter Tevis was more than a one-hit wonder. Tevis’s first book, The Hustler (1959), is the classic novel about professional pool players, and was made into an equally classic film with Paul Newman as “Fast” Eddie Felson and Jackie Gleason as the dapper Minnesota Fats. Published a quarter of a century later, Tevis’s final novel, The Color of Money, revisits the now middle-aged Felson as he cues up against a new, younger generation of pool players. Newman again starred in the film, which this time bore only the faintest resemblance to the novel. But then, as Tevis admitted, he only wrote it for the money since his previous book – about a female chess player – never even reached a second printing during his lifetime. Today, a fine first edition of

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