{"product_id":"the-gamblers-nephew-paperback","title":"The Gambler's Nephew - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Matthews\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Matthews' first novel, \u003ci\u003eHanger Stout, Awake \u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1967, and his latest, The Gambler's Nephew, is already the 23rd in his half-century career. Thankfully it's never too late to discover a writer this pleasant to read.--Claire Blechman, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's so much to delight a reader in local author Jack Matthews' new novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Gambler's Nephew, \u003c\/i\u003e it's hard to know where to start. Probably with the prose, which Matthews writes with easy, lyrical grace and a bulls-eye wit.--Jim Phillips, \u003ci\u003eThe Athens News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJack Matthews is an American original.--William Heyen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYears ago, way back in the l850s, there was a wealthy merchant in the little Ohio River town of Brackenport by name of Nehemiah Dawes who got to brooding over slavery and grave robbing so much that his mind became unbalanced.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gambler's Nephew\u003c\/i\u003e presents a world of abolitionist passion, murder, and old-fashioned cussedness, a world of steamboats plying the Ohio River, and a world with people troubled by such grand irrelevancies as love. Here is a world as richly confused as our own--and as alive as living can get.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Columbus, Ohio, in 1925, Jack Matthews served in the Coast Guard at the end of World War II, then attended Ohio State University. Having taught for close to 50 years, he is now Distinguished Professor at Ohio University in Athens. His awards include the Florence Roberts Head award, Quill award, Ohio Arts Council award, and a Guggenheim grant. He is the author of more than a dozen books of fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, essays, and nonfiction, many of them set in Ohio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702137524287,"sku":"9780981968773","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c6dc6a4e6ce2c4652ab571d92e93bc8f.webp?v=1765023292","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-gamblers-nephew-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}