Baccarat: Nine Lives South of Boona

By Mark Broderick

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887393659
• ISBN13: 9780887393655
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Creative Arts Book Company
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Excellent up and coming new writer...can't wait for more!Possibly The Next Great American Writer?!

�BACCARAT THRIVES WITH IMAGINATION!�

I thoroughly enjoyed Mark Broderick?s ?Baccarat?Nine Lives South of Boona.? A fast read, ?Baccarat? features a small town?s struggle with the recent Millennium Fever and its sparks that launched a Creator?s winning hand. The annual cruise of the residents is always a gamble and this year is clearly no exception. One main character, Max Prometheus Holon, helps those on that cruise gain some wisdom. On the other hand, Eleanor is like the restlessly wandering moon; she?s a fleeing creature who eventually confronts Max. Together, they create an experience rich with original characters. No one is immune to Millennium Fever even if you are, or have been, an immortal and the goings on of the gods will never again be musty ancient history. Celestial high jinks, missing humidors, dirty hands and dirty smiles, an underworld mail carrier, extortion, high stakes croquet. . . all offered me a feast for the mind?and the senses.

An Imaginative Millennium!

In ?Baccarat,? the winner of the annual tournament gets to rule that big town for one year while the loser serves it. However, being south of Boona means the growth might not be all that is expected. Publisher?s Weekly offers this praise for Baccarat: ?Gods and mortals alike succumb to gambling fever aboard the Peace of Boona on its yearly baccarat cruise, and would-be lovers Max and Eleanor, children of two of the game?s celebrated fixtures, are alternately seduced and repulsed by the frenzy. From up above, Kronos, Apollo, and other celestial powerhouses dabble in earthly matters as the Titan Argus competes with the mortal D. A. Holon for the strumpet La Petite?s love in Mark Broderick?s madcap first book.?