by Tim Powers · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427017405
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«La última partida» is the fantasy novel by Tim Powers published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (633 pages, in Spanish).
In Las Vegas, Georges León dominates a gambling empire and seeks to perpetuate himself through his children. Scott Crane, raised by a professional gambler, disregards protective superstitions and plays a game with hand-painted tarot on a boat on Lake Mead. He wins the payment for his life: to escape, he must understand a magic tied to cards and fate.
First installment of the Fault Lines series. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, both in 1993.
A read for fans of urban fantasy, with an atmosphere of mystery and horror and the world of gambling as a setting.
Timothy Thomas Powers is an American science fiction and fantasy author. His first major novel was The Drawing of the Dark (1979), but the novel that earned him wide praise was The Anubis Gates (1983), which won the Philip K. Dick Award, and has since been published in many other languages. His other written work include Dinner at Deviant's Palace (1985), Last Call (1992), Expiration Date (1996), Earthquake Weather (1997), Declare (2000), and Three Days to Never (2006). Powers has won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. His 1987 novel On Stranger Tides served as inspiration for the Monkey Island franchise of video games and was partly adapted into the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film.
