A gripping, true story of one man's forty-year struggle with compulsive gambling and his hard-won recovery.
"My history of gambling really began before I was born." So opens Born to Lose, Bill Lee's self-told story of gambling addiction, set in San Francisco's Chinatown and steeped in a culture where it is not unheard of for gamblers (Lee's grandfather included) to lose their children to a bet. From wagering away his beloved baseball card collection as a youngster to forfeiting everything he owned at black jack tables in Las Vegas, Lee describes what gambling addiction feels like from the inside and how recovery is possible through the Twelve Step program.
- ISBN10 1616491345
- ISBN13 9781616491345
- Publish Date 3 February 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 March 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
- Format eBook
- Pages 304
- Language English