{"product_id":"last-call-a-novel-isbn-9780062233271","title":"Last Call: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLast Call\u003c\/em\u003e, the Locus Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award winner by Tim Powers, ex-professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended—a contest he believed he walked away from a big winner—are drawing him back to the magical city.. because the mythic game did not end that night in 1969. And the price of his winnings was his soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003cem\u003eLast Call\u003c\/em\u003e includes a special P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eEnchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel \u003cem\u003eLast Call\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, \u003cem\u003eLast Call\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Offbeat and daringly inventive . . . . Powers has created a mind-bending miz of genres, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Powers] orchestrates reality and fantasy so artfully that the reader is not allowed a moment’s doubt throughout this tall tale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Highly ingenious . . . No one else writes like Powers, and Declare finds him at the top of his game.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Powers is an ace stylist, with plotting and characterization skills that are invariably engaging . .. He moves the plotting blocks around into a pleasing and well-paced structure.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.  Declare’s occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly imagined.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Gibson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888141431013,"sku":"NP9780062233271","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062233271.jpg?v=1730228244","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/last-call-a-novel-isbn-9780062233271","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}