Rounders: A Novelization

by Kevin Canty

Young Mike McDermott is a master card-player, at large in New York's underground world of high-stake poker games. He tries to control his obsession with gambling by focusing on his studies at law... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786883987
• ISBN13: 9780786883981
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Miramax Books
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Better than the movie

I was surprised to discover there was a "novelization" of the movie. I really enjoyed it, and it was by far the best novelization I have ever read -- not that I've read many. (I only picked this up because I like reading books about poker.) But this is a serious literary book that just puts the movie into words, and in doing so, I though made the movie and the charcaters much fuller. I only give four stars because it is not an origional story.

Damn Straight

Straight out of the mouth of teddy kgb himself, this book rocks

Good Reading

I really liked this book but the movie was bette