Confessions of a slot machine queen
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Sandra Adell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: EugeniaBooks
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780984267101
Subjects: African American women college teachers; Compulsive gamblers; Biography; Women gamblers
Description: A literature professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison describes her downward spiral into gambling addiction and despair.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. -- Part 1:; title: Ho Chunk --; title: The mighty river --; title: Detroit --; title: Locked down --; title: Welfare mother. -- Part 2:; title: Madison, Wisconsin --; title: City of casinos --; title: Queen of hearts --; title: Slot machine sickness --; title: The gamblers --; title: The abyss ---- Epilogue.