- Taschenbuch: 544 Seiten
- Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks (1. Dezember 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 038072846X
- ISBN-13: 978-0380728466
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 13,4 x 3,1 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (19 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 430.129 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Rich, top-flight mythic fantasy based on Jungian archetypes, Tarot symbolism, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, and the Parsifal legend; by the smartly acclaimed author of On Stranger Tides, 1987, etc. Luck could not flow with more Jungian synchronicity for Powers than his having cast Bugsy Siegel as The Fisher King in this long novel just as Warren Beatty's Bugsy has fixed the nation's eye on the Oscar race, along with Robin Williams's turn as The Fisher King. The scene is Las Vegas, the subject supernatural poker using Tarot cards. Bugsy Siegel is the reigning Fisher King whose new Flamingo Hotel gambling casino is modeled on the Tarot's tower card, with the Flamingo as an inverted tower. Overthrowing Bugsy is Georges Leon, who assassinates Bugsy in his mistress's home in L.A. and prepares to become Fisher King. Leon has two sons, Robert and Scott. He has already spiritually gutted Robert and now can see through Robert's eyes, and is setting up five-year-old Scott for the same treatment while inducting him into playing-card magic. But Leon's wife shoots him in the groin, giving Leon the Fisher King's unhealing wound, and throws Scott onto a yacht that's passing by on a trailer. Scott, who has been blinded in one eye by Leon and become a one-eyed jack, is adopted and raised by the yacht's wizardly owner, Ozzie (who is much smarter than the Wizard of Oz). Scott faces his father in a weird poker game called Assumption, which uses Tarot cards and allows Leon to assume the bodies of losers for his future use, thus assuring him of immortality as long as he has a stable of bodies. When Scott loses to Leon, his objective becomes someday to beat Leon at Assumption and save his own soul by depriving his beastly father of bodies. Scott is aided by the ghost of Bugsy Siegel, which he meets at the bottom of Lake Mead. Knockout poker sequences give the symbolism real sizzle, while the genre is enlivened throughout with great lines from Eliot. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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“Riveting…lyrical and brutal…a thrilling tale of gambling, fate and fantastic adventure.” (Los Angeles Daily News )
“A novel of the supernatural and occult that is hard boiled, seamy and suspenseful as the best film noir.” (Tom Robbins )
“Distinctive and commanding . . . a strikingly inventive novel.” (Publishers Weekly )
“Brilliant! Compelling and satisfying! Tim Powers is one of our best writers, and LAST CALL is his best book yet.” (Raymond E. Feist )
“A terrific read . . . a believable tapestry of greed and passion.” (Denver Rocky Mountain News )
“Weird . . .grippingly written . . . a nightmarish novel, brilliantly researched and made.” (San Jose Mercury News )
“A novel of the supernatural and occult that is hard boiled, seamy and suspenseful as the best film noir.” (Tom Robbins )
“Distinctive and commanding . . . a strikingly inventive novel.” (Publishers Weekly )
“Brilliant! Compelling and satisfying! Tim Powers is one of our best writers, and LAST CALL is his best book yet.” (Raymond E. Feist )
“A terrific read . . . a believable tapestry of greed and passion.” (Denver Rocky Mountain News )
“Weird . . .grippingly written . . . a nightmarish novel, brilliantly researched and made.” (San Jose Mercury News )
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After reading Tim Powers' "Last Call" I found myself wanting to play poker again and go to Las Vegas, but holding on to some magic charm to save me from being absorbed by spirit catching immortals.
Like his following book "Expiration Date" Mr. Powers characters are not what one would call "sympathetic" characters, who one could find some spark of identification. They are not easily liked: drunks, gamblers, crazies and evil characters misusing metaphysics to further their neferious ends. But because these characters are not sympathetic I found myself drawn into the story.
Never before have I read a story that touches upon so many diverse topics: Jungian schronicity, Tarot cards, poker, alcohol, magic, The Fisher King, TS Eliot, and gangsters. Only an author who has a wide view of the fictive landscape he rules can weave such a tale and make the reader stay up late on a work night to find out what is the next amazing and scary thing that is going to come up.
Although some fans of Tim Powers are sad that he strayed from the historical fantasies he wrote before I am glad someone is writing about contemporary things, places and people that are infused with magic.
The struggle between good and evil takes place everyday, with people who are less than likable, and this book speaks of one of those struggles. I await for his next book and hope he continues on this comtemporary theme.
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"Last Call" is a book about loss, death, redemption, tarot cards and the Fisher King. It plays out in a vast and mythical Las Vegas that only marginally resembles the one that sits in the Nevada desert.
Scott Crane is a man who loses. As a child, he lost an eye. As a young man, he lost his soul in a card game. As an adult, is wife dies and he loses his will to survive. Until he is drawn to Las Vegas, where the last Fisher King died, and learns his is one of four Jacks vying for the right to assume the King's place.
It sounds wacky and ridiculous and I'm sure it would fall flat in any hands but those of Tim Powers. But Powers is a master of Urban Magic, at finding mystery in the oridinary and in drawing conclusions from history that might only be inferred by a madman. But once he has cast his eye on a subject and explained it to us, it all makes sense. We wonder why we never saw it before.
In typical fashion, Powers has selected Eliot's "The Waste Land" as a sort of working illustration of the story, writing elements that make you stop and think "Oh, ho! Eliot was in on it, too!". Powers uses the poem to good effect, as he has with the Romantic poets in "The Stress of Her Regard" and other works.
I don't get excited about many books or many authors, but this is one of the best. Powers is an amazing talent, always satisfying, always fresh and always jaw-droppingly unique.
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I can't decide whether I like this book or The Stress of Her Regard better. It's like trying to choose between a romantic evening with the one you love and a sleazy quicky with the one after whom you lust--either one has its attraction. Of the two, Last Call is certainly the sleazy choice. It's a disturbing book, and so tightly plotted that you must pay attention from the first page. Don't be put off if it doesn't seem to make sense early. Trust me, it will.
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Last Call -- One to Read!
I was in one of Tim Power's first fiction classes at the University of Redlands. So believe me, I know what I'm talking about when it comes to his stories. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Another great book from the T.S. Eliot of fantasy.
How do you mix tarot cards, gangsters and arthurian legend into a cohesive whole? You need to have the depth and knowledge of language that Mr Powers has. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juli 2000 von Mar Calpena
Most Brilliant So Far!
Powers' usual mixture of historical fact and mythology are tightly plotted around the descent of playing cards from the Tarot. I can't recommend this book more highly!
Am 27. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Complexity Perfected
This story is a unique marriage of superstition and magic, Las Vegas and Camelot, poker and Tarot. It has a dozen or more quirky-yet-real-yet-surreal characters, any one of whom... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Oktober 1999 von A. Harrison
Well done fantasy
I loved this book. I don't normally read fantasy, but this one inspired me to check out more of it's genre. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. September 1999 veröffentlicht
One of my all time favorites
After reading Last Call, I felt I could believe in magic again. After I finished it, I had to recommend it to my friends. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. August 1999 von Brendan Gray
Another world, confidently and wondrously created
Powers does it again (after On Stranger Tides and Anubis Gates, two other brilliant fantasies). This stands as the first of three books that are connected-- loosely in the case of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Februar 1999 von Chris Ward
I don't get it.
After reading the other reviews posted here, I feel like I must have read a different book than the other reviewers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
Incredibly innovative and just all 'round great
If there's been a fantasy book that the genre needed more than this, I can't think of it. We've had books with strong, cohesive theologies before, we've had books with... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. November 1998 veröffentlicht
A masterful work
Others have summarized the plot of this masterful plot, so all I will add is that this is the sort of novel that other professionals read and wish they could write nearly as well. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
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