On Snooker The Game And the Characters Who Play It

A brilliant, witty & compact look at the game of snooker (pool) -- past & present -- by one of the world's great novelists. Mordecai Richler honed his cueing action in the pool halls of Montreal. He was addicted to the game & its grown-up cousin -- snooker -- ever after. Richler traces the history of snooker from its 19th-century origins to the tobacco-sponsored world of today's game. He visits the craftsmen who make the cues, the agents who control the sport, the groupies who follow the circuit & the millionaire players themselves. The Ôbad boys' from Alex Higgins to Ronnie O'Sullivan, his fellow countrymen Cliff Thorburn & Kirk Stevens &, the central figure of the book, Stephen Hendry, the game's most talented exponent ever. This is sports writing at its best!Richler, Mordecai is the author of 'On Snooker The Game And the Characters Who Play It', published 2001 under ISBN 9780756787363 and ISBN 075678736X.