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Money for Nothing Lib/E: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions


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About the Book

This wry and funny memoir tells the story of America's addiction to gambling from an astonishing angle. At age twenty-six, broke and knee-deep in gambling debt, Ed Ugel serendipitously landed a job as a salesman for The Firm, a company that offered up-front cash to lottery winners in exchange for their gradually doled-out prize money. Ed made a lucrative living by taking advantage of lottery winners' weaknesses--weaknesses he knew all too well. As Ed saw the often hilarious, sometimes sad outcomes that occur when great wealth is dropped on ordinary people who rarely have the financial savvy to keep up with the lottery-winner lifestyle, he discovered that the American Dream looks a lot like a day at the casino. And like those lottery winners, Ed struggled to find a balance in his own life as his increasing success earned him a bigger and bigger salary.

About the Author :
Edward Ugel is a sales and marketing expert who spent his late twenties and early thirties working among the nation's most infamous lottery winners and gamblers in the high-stakes lump sum industry. He writes for the Huffington Post and has also written for the New York Times and contributed to PRI's This American Life. Arthur Morey has recorded over two hundred audiobooks in history, fiction, science, business, and religion, earning a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards and two Audie Award nominations. He was an editor at two publishers and has taught writing at Northwestern University. His plays and songs have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Milan, where he has also performed. Arthur attended Harvard and the University of Chicago.

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"[A] sordid--and highly engaging--tale." -- "Wall Street Journal" "A breezy, funny writer...By turns amusing and alarming." -- "Kirkus Reviews" "A colorfully written account by a self-proclaimed overweight, chain-smoking, Krispy Kreme doughnut-eating, fanatical gambler...You will lick your chops, eager to hear the sordid woes of winners gone broke from spending sprees." -- "USA Today" "Mr. Ugel's roller-coaster ride makes for dizzying, sometimes harrowing reading. Confessional, un-self-protecting, and bitterly funny, it exposes the human failings of his customers, his colleagues, himself, in a personal memoir of greed and hope." -- "New York Times" "This funny, eye-opening memoir explores the American mania for gambling and the dark side of hitting the jackpot." -- "Details Magazine" "Ugel's natural showmanship makes for entertaining reading. He does little to pretty up his misdeeds...while delivering a well-deserved scathing indictment of the government-backed lottery system." -- "Library Journal" "Narrator Arthur Morey gives an exceptional interpretation of the author's seductive writing. He connects equally well with the tension of the sales encounter, the ironies in the clients' sad stories, and the ribald self-disclosure that make this exposé so entertaining." -- "AudioFile" "We all have much to learn from the author's important perspective on the proliferation of gambling opportunities. Written in an informal, sometimes humorous manner, this book contains excellent information for library patrons." -- "Booklist"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781433256271
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 295 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1433256274
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2009
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 168 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions
  • Width: 168 mm


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