Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas

Name: Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas
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ISBN: 9780812974386

ISBN-10: 0812974387

ISBN-13: 9780812974386

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Authors: David Kushner

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If you think a gang of real-life geeks can't take on the world and win big . . . think again. And whatever you do, don't sit down across a gaming table from Jon Finkel, better known as Jonny Magic. Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids is his amazing true story: the jaw-dropping, zero-to-hero chronicle of a fat, friendless boy from New Jersey who found his edge in a game of cards-and turned it into a fortune. The ultimate bully-magnet, Finkel grew up heckled and hazed until destiny came in the form of a trading-card game called Magic: The Gathering. Magic exploded from nerdy obsession to mainstream mania and made the teenage Finkel an ultracool world champion. Once transformed, this young…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.92" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

David Kushner is the author of Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture. He is a contributing editor of Rolling Stone and Wired. His work has appeared in numerous other publications including The New York Times, Spin, Salon, and New York. He lives in New Jersey. Visit his website at www.davidkushner.com.