![]() He brings life and depth to Fast Eddie Felson and his alcoholic college-girl companion. Tevis seems to instinctively know how to get drama from his characters in a natural, unforced way. ![]() His portrait of pool hall culture and pool-hustler life-style comes across with the precision and color that only come from having lived and observed it It also shows all the best earmarks of a First Novel: craftsmanship, passion and the sense of personal experience that makes the milieu come alive on the page. Walter Tevis worked his way through college in a pool room, and he writes is a hard-boiled classic here that wouldn’t be out of place in a Gold Medal wrapper. ![]() A quick check of my shelves turned it up: the same movie tie-in edition from 1961, and I settled in for a few days of doing the book/movie thing, where I read a few chapters through the day, then watch the corresponding minutes that evening. I started watching this last week and remembered I had read the book back in High School. Screenplay by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen. Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason and George C. ![]()
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