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Yarborough

By: B. H. Friedman

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Paperback | 14 November 2022

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424 Pages

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21.01 x 14.81 x 2.67

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New edition of B. H. Friedman's critically-acclaimed 1964 serio-comic novel. Yarborough is the story of well-to-do bridge prodigy Arthur Skelton and his futile search for some system to give his life meaning. The novel takes its title from the game of bridge. A "yarborough" is a "nothing hand," a hand that contains no card above a nine.

Industry Reviews

"One cannot say enough in praise of its intelligence, ingenuity, virtuosity. . . . Nor can one attack its sincerity, the cool authenticity of its half-comic, half-serious approach."

- San Francisco Examiner, December 13, 1964

"Friedman has written a thoroughly amoral, devilish, subversive and downright un-American novel. It's very entertaining."

- Minneapolis Tribune, December 20, 1964

"[A] remarkable first novel . . . Friedman's prose holds no trace of the querulousness that taints Samuel Beckett's work and suffuses Norman Mailer's. His cynicism is direct and powerful."

- Chicago Tribune, December 27, 1964

"Friedman writes well, but his material may not appeal to a wide audience. It's hip."

- Rapid City Journal, November 15, 1964

"Friedman's achievement is to make us like so thoroughly and believe so thoroughly in a man who believes in so little."

- Kansas City Star, November 15, 1964

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