RISKY BUSINESS: PEOPLE, PASTIMES, POKER AND BOOKS

"Al Alvarez's writing career has come in many guises. One of the most influential post-war critics, he has written about writers and their craft for over fifty years. Risky Business is a selection of Alvarez's finest essays. Ranging from trenchant-literary criticism to accounts of polar expeditions and poker championships, it is a collection from our most unusual man of letters."--Jacket.