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Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback (Paperback)
George Plimpton (author)
£9.99
Paperback
384 Pages /
Published: 04/08/2016
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In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions' pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experience of a month practising and living with the team - getting to know the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks, taking behind the scenes snaps and capturing a host of American football rites and rituals.
Plimpton might not have made it as a quarterback, but fifty years after its first publication, Paper Lion remains one of the most insightful and entertaining classics of sports literature.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780224100229
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 271 g
Dimensions: 200 x 132 x 25 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"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" * New Yorker *
"Possibly the most arresting and delightful narrative in all of sports literature" * Book Week *
"With his gentle, ironic tone, and unwillingness to take himself too seriously, along with Roger Angell, John Updike and Norman Mailer he made writing about sports something that mattered." * Guardian *
"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" * New Yorker *
"Possibly the most arresting and delightful narrative in all of sports literature" * Book Week *
"With his gentle, ironic tone, and unwillingness to take himself too seriously, along with Roger Angell, John Updike and Norman Mailer he made writing about sports something that mattered." * Guardian *
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