The Bridge Bum: My Life and Play

by Alan Sontag

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688031978
• ISBN13: 9780688031978
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Book

I thought the book was down to earth and provided a great deal of useful information about bridge and bridge opponents.

Bridge Professional's life.

Alan Sontag's Bridge bum presents a vivid description of the life of a professional bridge player. The challenge match against the Italian Blue team wherein the winning team was to get five Lancia cars; the fierce competition at the Cavendish Calcutta - an event Sontag and his partner won despite the strong field; a rubber bridge game in Jamaica where Sontag played as a jockey; and a small local tournament where Sontag and his partner played on a sixty-five year young woman's team just to help here fulfil her dream of winning that championship are the main stories around which the narration revolves. The book itself is full of Bridge discussion, and would definitely help those who wish to do well in bridge tournaments.