(Download free ebook) Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
▲ Stefan Fatsis ▲
| #705438 in Books | Stefan Fatsis | 2002-07-30 | 2002-07-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.43 x.86 x5.53l,.82 | File Name: 0142002267 | 416 pages | Word Freak
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Wonderfully well-written and fascinating to this Scrabble fanatic|By jazzmom|Who knew there even was such a thing as professional Scrabble? For enthusiastic amateurs like me (I have the original score cards from games with my father more than 50 years ago), Scrabble is an enjoyable brain exercise and genteel social activity. For the characters in this book, however, the game i|.com |Like a cross between a linguistic spy and a lexicographic Olympic athlete, journalist Stefan Fatsis gave himself a year to penetrate the highest echelons of international Scrabble competition. Word Freak is the account of his journey. It's a wacky
Scrabble may be truly called America's game. But for every group of "living-room players" there is someone who is "at one with the board." In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis introduces readers to those few, exploring the underground world of colorful characters for which the Scrabble game is life-playing competitively in tournaments across the country. It is also the story of how the Scrabble game was invented by an unemployed architect during the Great Depression and ...
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