Word freak : Heartbreak, triumph, genius, and obsession in the world of competitive scrabble players

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 Scrab...

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Tác giả chính: Fatsis, Stefan
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:Undetermined
Được phát hành: Boston Houghton Mifflin Co. 2001
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