Cards of the Gambler - Softcover

Benedict Kiely is one of Ireland s leading modem novelists. With The Cards of the Gambler he holds the reader as only a great story-teller can, weaving the ordinary and everyday with the gleaming threads of Irish folklore into the deep pattern of a modem Faust. It is a story of a Doctor who loses everything gambling and thinks he is damned; who meets God in one pub and Death in another, where a pact is made ...