Win Some, Lose Some

The heart of this novel is camaraderie and friendship. This novel is humorous fiction with some romance and reminiscing. The cover of this book is colored magenta. This color would make Pankowski happy, as he would feel it set the right mood, even though it does not, This is an inside joke. If you wish to know the joke, you will have to read inside. This novel is about former high school buddies gathering for an all-night poker game during their twentieth-year reunion in 1982. (If you are not well versed in math, they graduated in 1962.) While playing poker, they ribaldry kibitz, reminisce, and rag on each other. In their conversing, they begin talking about females they had serious relationships with, but for one reason or another did not end up marrying. In the early AM, their game is interrupted by female classmates, who crash their poker game and temporarily join the reminiscing and storytelling. Besides laughing, you may get a tear forming. There is romance. There are some sexual situations, but told in a light, humorous way. They are non-erotic. If you desire eroticism, find a different novel. Male readers will recognize the risqué and off-color verbal jousting of old friends that takes place while drinking beer at a poker game or sitting around a campfire. Gals may learn how crude fellows are when females are not present.