Paperback. Pub the Date: 1998 Jun Pages: 496 in Publisher: Trafalgar Square of The Risk the Pool is a thirty-year journey through the lives of Sam Hall. a small-town gambling hellraiser and his watchful introspective son Ned. When Ned's mother Jenny suffers a eakdown and retreats from her husband's carelessness into a dream world. Ned becomes part of his father's seedy nocturnal world. touring the town's bars and pool halls. struggling to win Sam's affections while avoiding his sins. (19980424)
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