Positively Fifth Street (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: James McManus
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 2000
- Setting: Las Vegas
- Principal Characters: James McManus, Jennifer Ann Arra, Ted Binion, Benny Binion, Sandra Murphy, Rick Tabish, Becky Behnen, T. J. Cloutier, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Gambling, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Card games, Drug addiction or addicts, Drugs, Heroin, Nightclubs, Nevada, Games
- Locales: Las Vegas, NV
Largely a hand-by-hand account of the final four days of the 2000 annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), Positively Fifth Street arrives in a moment of resurgent interest in Las Vegas as both a brightly lit tourist mecca and shadowy home to seedy strip clubs and dangerous high-stakes gambling. Author James McManus combines the moment-to-moment excitement of the poker tournament with true crime, covering the murder of Ted Binion, one-time owner of the Horseshoe Hotel and Casino, where the WSOP originated.
Harper’s Magazine sent McManus, a novelist and poet, to Las...
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