Description

The Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark ( The Kid ) who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master ( The Man ). From the first edition dust-jacket: By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man. . . . From Jolly s Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Spriigi s Emporium in Wheeling on the Ohio, down to Big Nig s in Memphis on the Mississippi, he was known as The Cincinnati Kid, a comer, with a way about him.