The book that made a legend, and a classic of sports writing - George Plimpton's Paper Lion is published in the UK on its 50th anniversary.
George Plimpton (1927-2003) was the bestselling author and editor of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and editor of the Paris Review. He wrote regularly for such magazines as Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and he appeared numerous times in films and on television.
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*
The casual, curious, light-hearted precision of his prose is just
as impressive as the way a great ball player can make the ball pop
off his bat.
*Spectator*
To suggest they have achieved classic status would be to devalue
their still very immediate pleasures… [Plimpton] was a lyrical,
precise observational writer, with a keen eye for human
absurdity’.
*Observer*
What drives these books, and has made them so popular, is
Plimpton’s continuous bond-making with the reader and the comedy
inherent in his predicament. He is the Everyman, earnests and
frail, wandering in a world of supermen, beset by fears of
catastrophic violence and public humiliation, yet gamely facing it
all in order to survive and tell the tale… A prodigious linguistic
ability is on display throughout, with a defining image often
appended at the end of a sentence like a surprise dessert.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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