The King of Video Poker

Arnold Palmer has just died and The King of Video Poker is about to lose everything he loves. In Paolo Iacovelli’s debut novel, we follow a nameless narrator. He is a normative, upper-middle-class American who commutes to Las Vegas to play high-stakes video poker. He seems to have everything: a son, a loving wife, a beautiful home in Mesquite, Nevada. But aimless and depressed, he must face emptiness in both spirit and body. His relationships deteriorate and our narrator is left attempting the d