num_pages: 479
description: "The Risk Pool" is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall, a small-town gambling hellraiser, and his watchful, introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a breakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world, Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world, touring the town's bars and pool halls, struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins.
language: English
title: The Risk Pool
titlecomplete: The Risk Pool
characters: Ned Hall
genres: Coming Of Age, American, Modern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Family, Fiction, Contemporary, Humor
ratings_count: 7129
places: Mohawk Valley, New York, Upstate New York
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction
publisher: Trafalgar Square