Vulnerable in Hearts
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biography
bridge
card games
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Product details
- ISBN 9781843543664
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 11 May 2006
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Part memoir, part history, part entertainment, Vulnerable in Hearts is a meditation on how we communicate; why we play games; and the ways in which we love.
Sandy Balfour's father and the game of contract bridge were both conceived in 1925. Vulnerable in Hearts spans the eight decades of Tom Balfour's life and the same period in the epic story of bridge's spread around the world. Sandy Balfour's poignant and beguiling book traces both journeys to explore the relationships between a game and an empire (and the rules that supported it); and a father and a son.
Sandy Balfour was born in South Africa and emigrated to Britain in 1983. He is an award-winning producer and the author of Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8): A Memoir of Love, Exile and Crosswords and I Say Nothing (3). He has been known, on occasion, to complete entire crosswords. He lives in London.
