Sweet: An 8 Ball Odyssey
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Sweet: An 8 Ball Odyssey
When Heather Byer moved to New York from teh Midwest in the early 1990s, she was like thousands of newcomers before her: wholesome, overeducated, eager to jump head first into the ruthless, exciting worlds of publishing and film. In Sweet: An Eight Ball Odyssey, Byer recounts her first fumbling attempts to learn a game that beckoned her for years. She describes the hypnotic pull that surrounds billiards: the troubled players who lose themselves in the game; the constant quest for the win on those lush, green tables.
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When Heather Byer moved to New York from teh Midwest in the early 1990s, she was like thousands of newcomers before her: wholesome, overeducated, eager to jump head first into the ruthless, exciting worlds of publishing and film. In Sweet: An Eight Ball Odyssey, Byer recounts her first fumbling attempts to learn a game that beckoned her for years. She describes the hypnotic pull that surrounds billiards: the troubled players who lose themselves in the game; the constant quest for the win on those lush, green tables. As her game changes - collapsing when her confidence ebbs, becoming sharper when she learns to conquer her fears, she finds herself becoming less analytical and verbal, more intuitive and physical. Byer finds mentors and hustlers, friends and lovers, excitement and heartbreak. She vividly describes her progress and mishaps on the tables and around them as she moves through the fascinating and sometimes treacherous subculture of pool and billiards.
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