num_pages: 302
description: Robert Byrne provides drama, humor, and constant surprises in this first-ever collection of short stories about pool, billiards, and snooker. The writers have made excellent use of the short story form, approaching it - like a pool table - from every angle.The billiard table / by James Hall --The captain's daughter / by Alexander Pushkin --Recollections of a billiard scorer / by Leo Tolstoy --A game of billiards / by Alphonse Daudet --Fate / by H.H. Munro (Saki) --A billiard lesson / by A.A. Milne --A game of billiards / by Thornton C. McCune --Forty years of billiards / by Stephen Leacock --Red ball / by L.A.G. Strong --Sportsmanship / by John O'Hara --A jolly game / by Mikhail Zoshchenko --The blue-winged teal / by Wallace Stegner --A game of billiards / by William Sansom --The big hustle / by Walter Tevis --The hustler / by Walter Tevis --Champs / by Pedro Juan Soto --Beyond the sunset / by Jesse Hill Ford --The crossroader / by Don Carpenter --The snooker shark / by William Harrison --Lem the barber / by Danny McGoorty --De Oro's bladder / by Danny McGoorty --The Hungarian cinch / by Bill Pronzini --Great big boffs they are / by Ken Mitchell --Remember young Cecil / by James Kelman --One pocket / by Don Carpenter --Massé / by Leigh Allison Wilson --Mother and father / by Jonathan Baumbach --Long green / by Miles Wilson --Exit / by Andrew Vachss --One up / by Robert Abel --Playing for money / by Theodore Weesner
language: English
title: Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories
titlecomplete: Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Mariner Books