The man who rode Ampersand was in fact, an amateur jockey named Harry Cotton. Harry is a compulsive gambler. The resulting decline in his fortunes takes him through three decades of adventures, melancholy, heroic, and comic by turn, which cut a broad swathe of disorder through provincial race meetings, 'one -night cheap hotels' and three luxurious redoubts of the fabulously rich. The inhabitants and frequenters of these places are every bit as bizarre as their surroundings.
ISBN: | 9780099285984 |
Publication date: | 1st March 2001 |
Author: | Ferdinand Mount |
Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 245 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |