Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations

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I didn’t see his grave and I couldn’t find my father’s, even with the photocopied map that an anxious woman at reception had furnished me with. I had reached the data limit on my phone, which meant that Google Maps was unavailable and I was unlikely ever to find Henry Street in Elizabeth. Travelling from Siberia to Versailles, from his father’s life in war-time Poland to Nietzsche on the slopes of Vesuvius, Flusfeder investigates some victors of luck and those who were defeated by it.

I watched, with some measure of awe, Paul consume bacon, sausages, fried potatoes, waffles, pancakes, scrambled eggs, toast and jelly, and a little white bowl of what I later realised were grits. Around this time, the jigsaw tool was invented and used to efficiently cut through wood, making it possible for puzzles to be more precise and intricate. Barbara was younger and very thin and wore brown polo necks and slacks and big round-lensed tinted glasses. David Flusfeder has a way of interwtiiqin g the personal and the philosophical which leads you in and trips you up, steadies you and inspires you, welcomes you and surprises you all at once. At best, he says, it provides us with a map to help us navigate outcomes that are immeasurable and ultimately unknowable.Those seeking a scholarly disquisition on the nature of luck will be disappointed by this book, not least since the author admits he is not a philosopher.

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