Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
Autor George Plimpton Cuvânt înainte de Nicholas Dawidoffen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2016
George Plimpton was perhaps best known for PAPER LION, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals.
One of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football, PAPER LION is a classic look at the gridiron game and a bookThe Wall Street Journalcalls "a continuous feast...The best book ever about football--or anything!"
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316284509
ISBN-10: 0316284505
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 146 x 219 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316284505
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 146 x 219 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
George
Plimpton(1927-2003)
was
the
bestselling
author
and
editor
of
nearly
thirty
books,
as
well
as
the
cofounder,
publisher,
and
editor
of
theParis
Review.
He
wrote
regularly
for
such
magazines
asSports
IllustratedandEsquire,
and
he
appeared
numerous
times
in
films
and
on
television.
Recenzii
"A
continuous
feast...The
best
book
ever
about
football--or
anything!"—Wall
Street
Journal
"A great book that makes football absolutely fascinating to fan and non-fan alike...a tale to gladden the envious heart of every weekend athlete.... Plimpton has endless curiosity, unshakable enthusiasm and nerve, and a deep respect for the world he enters."—New York Times
"The agility and imaginativeness of his prose transforms his account of this daydream into a classic of sports reporting."—The New Yorker
"Possibly the most arresting and delightful narrative in all of sports literature."—Book Week
"A delight--more entertaining, if possible, than I remembered... the reader leaves George Plimpton's wide world of sports with deep reluctance.... His prose is as elegant and seemingly effortless as Ted Williams's swing or an Arnold Palmer iron shot.... His teammates recede--like the old baseball players vanishing into the cornfield inField of Dreams, taking their magical world with them but living on in fond memory."—Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal
"Sports memoirs, like humor collections, rarely outlive their authors, but Plimpton's books have aged gracefully and even matured. Today they have the additional (and unintended) appeal of vivid history, bearing witness to a mythical era."—Nathaniel Rich,New York Review of Books
"A great book that makes football absolutely fascinating to fan and non-fan alike...a tale to gladden the envious heart of every weekend athlete.... Plimpton has endless curiosity, unshakable enthusiasm and nerve, and a deep respect for the world he enters."—New York Times
"The agility and imaginativeness of his prose transforms his account of this daydream into a classic of sports reporting."—The New Yorker
"Possibly the most arresting and delightful narrative in all of sports literature."—Book Week
"A delight--more entertaining, if possible, than I remembered... the reader leaves George Plimpton's wide world of sports with deep reluctance.... His prose is as elegant and seemingly effortless as Ted Williams's swing or an Arnold Palmer iron shot.... His teammates recede--like the old baseball players vanishing into the cornfield inField of Dreams, taking their magical world with them but living on in fond memory."—Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal
"Sports memoirs, like humor collections, rarely outlive their authors, but Plimpton's books have aged gracefully and even matured. Today they have the additional (and unintended) appeal of vivid history, bearing witness to a mythical era."—Nathaniel Rich,New York Review of Books