Playing Off the Rail
David McCumber. It Books, $14.99 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-380-72923-4
A billiard parlor insider's on-the-road memoir of the felt. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 03/31/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 978-0-517-30710-6
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