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Luck of the Draw True-Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers

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ISBN-10: 0132266067

ISBN-13: 9780132266062

Edition: N/A

Authors: Chris Gudgeon

List price: $14.95
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Money. Gobs of it. In the blink of an eye - or the drop of a ball? it's all yours. Everyone dreams about striking it rich by winning a lottery. We all feverishly line up to purchase our tickets, and watch TV or scan the newspapers to see if we have won, even though the odds are better that we will be struck by lightning. Still, we perservere, because no matter what else happens this week, you can be sure that someone, somewhere, will win the big one. Lotteries are an unparalleled popular phenomenon. But what happens after the winners are revealed, and the checks have been issued? How does winning a lottery change one's life? "Luck of the Draw" profiles past winners of big lotteries, and how…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Pearson Education Canada
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Language: English

Chris Gudgeon is the author of numerous books, including Consider the Fish, Stan Rogers, and The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada, as well as the Arsenal Pulp Press titles You're Not As Good As You Think You Are: A Demotivational Guide, a humorous guide on "demotivation"; Out of This World, a biography of poet Milton Acorn; and (with his writer wife Barbara Stewart) Luck of the Draw, on lottery winners. He has written articles and essays for such publications as MAD, National Lampoon,and Playboy. Chris and Barbara have three sons and they live in Victoria, BC Canada.