The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour
Autor George Plimpton Cuvânt înainte de Rick Reillyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2016
What happens when a weekend athlete--of average skill at best--joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, one of the finest participatory sports journalists, spent a month of self-imposed torture on the tour to find out. Along the way, he meets amateurs, pros, caddies, officials, fans, and hangers-on. In THE BOGEY MAN, we find golf legends, adventurers, stroke-saving theories, superstitions, and other golfing lore, and best of all, Plimpton's thoughts and experiences--frustrating, humbling and, sometimes, thrilling--from the first tee to the last green.
This intriguing classic, which remains one of the wittiest books ever written on golf, features Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Walter Hagan, and many other golf greats and eccentrics, all doing what they do best.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316326261
ISBN-10: 0316326267
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 149 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316326267
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 149 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
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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
"Humorous
but
also
agonizing
and
also
unfailingly
fascinating
regardless
of
one's
interest
in
golf.
For
the
psychology
of
the
sport--
and
this
is
what
Mr.
Plimpton
is
probing--
there
is
nothing
more
revealing
around."—The
New
York
Times
"Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that."—Newsweek
"Golf is a lonely and private game, lacking the natural drama of football, but Plimpton, by substituting improvisation for plot, has caught its mad comedy and bizarre effects on people in a book just as charming, in its own way, asPaper Lion."—Life
"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
"Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that."—Newsweek
"Golf is a lonely and private game, lacking the natural drama of football, but Plimpton, by substituting improvisation for plot, has caught its mad comedy and bizarre effects on people in a book just as charming, in its own way, asPaper Lion."—Life
"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
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From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit?
From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit?