"Jack Matthews' first novel, Hanger Stout, Awake , was published in 1967, and his latest, The Gambler's Nephew, is already the 23rd in his half-century career. Thankfully it's never too late to discover a writer this pleasant to read."--Claire Blechman, Ploughshares "There's so much to delight a reader in local author Jack Matthews' new novel, The Gambler's Nephew, it's hard to know where to start. Probably with...