6/26/2023 0 Comments The hustler walterThere, he goes head to head with Minnesota Fats, whom he can beat on the table but perhaps not in a contest of character and wills. After building up a reputation and some cash that would buy him high-stakes games against the best, Fast Eddie arrives in Chicago and beelines to Bennington’s, home field for the best pool players in the country. THE HUSTLER delivers, though its protagonist Fast Eddie Felson isn’t as likeable as Beth is in THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, and I just didn’t root for him the same way. After reading THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT, I grabbed Walter Tevis’s THE HUSTLER, which promised to do for pool what he’d done for chess, which is to say, lovingly portray it as a field of character, a personal test of wills, high-stakes drama, and a kind of violence.
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