A character in this novel wins $788.85 by betting a three-horse parlay, while another character is temporarily tricked by his lover Angie into thinking the latter is pregnant, so that she can observe his reaction.
A minor character in this novel is the author of the novel The Mosquito Lovers as well as the successful play The Flaming Corsage. At the end of this novel, Morrie Berman is arrested while trying to escape to Providence and Honey Curry is killed in Newark during a confrontation with the police. A character in this novel wins $788.85 by betting a three-horse parlay, while another character is temporarily tricked by his lover Angie into thinking the latter is pregnant, so that she can observe his reaction. A reference to events of its author's previous novel can be found in a reminiscence about Emory Jones running the headline "DIAMOND SLAIN BY ENEMIES." In a side plot in this novel, the newspaper columnist Martin Daugherty becomes the lover of Melissa Spencer, who had also been his father's mistress, and in the end, Daugherty salvages the title character's reputation with the O'Rourkes. This work's title may refer to the title character's pool hustling skills, his 668-point bowling victory, or his assistance in unraveling the kidnapping of Charlie McCall while trying to discharge his gambling debt to Daugherty. Taking place, like Legs and Ironweed in upstate New York, for ten points, identify this William Kennedy novel, the second part of his Albany Trilogy.
A minor character in this novel is the author of the novel The Mosquito Lovers as well as the successful play The Flaming Corsage.
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