Table Legs

by Paul Lyons

In Paul Lyons' tight, measured first novel, the protagonist Andy Hessel, plays pool, but as a middle-class white kid, he's an odd fixture among the street-smart black players...Paul Lyons has written... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941533425
• ISBN13: 9780941533423
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A gem of a novel on pool-hall cool and urban male passages.

This remains a gem of a novel on pool-hall cool and urban male passages. Witty and adept,this multi-talented author (now out in the Pacific) colorfully and poised like a pool hall Buddha captures one NYC neighborhood world and its enduring attractions, terrors, and male initiation rites with anthropological poise, transient exactitude,and the bliss of an ex-insider.