Odds : a Love Story (9781101554357) (2012)
“He needed to be careful. He believed from an ancient Dateline NBC that there were thieves who worked the casinos, pickpockets and teams of grifters that made off with slot players’ coin buckets, sleight‑of‑hand artists who lay in wait by the payout windows. He kept the bag tucked under one arm like an old woman with her purse, and as he slowly descended, standing still in a heavy metal box being lowered by a wire, the strangeness of the moment came over him. In the bag he had eight thousand dol...lars he was going to change into plastic chips he would put down on a table with the rest of their savings. It was like an errand in a dream, the motivations behind his actions lost in a convoluted backstory, his fate temporarily suspended, only the dread of the present fixing him there.
Downstairs, though it was half past ten, the front desk was mobbed with an army of dark-haired women in white puffy coats and black tights, speaking what he guessed was Italian. The concierge was gone, and rather than linger about helplessly, he crossed the lobby with purpose, headed for the closest entrance to the casino, as if he knew where he was going.MoreLess
Downstairs, though it was half past ten, the front desk was mobbed with an army of dark-haired women in white puffy coats and black tights, speaking what he guessed was Italian. The concierge was gone, and rather than linger about helplessly, he crossed the lobby with purpose, headed for the closest entrance to the casino, as if he knew where he was going.MoreLess
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