The Best American Sports Writing 1997 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395797624 ISBN 13: 9780395797624

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997

Synopsis

Bringing together the finest writing on sports to appear over the past year, a premier sports anthology includes excerpts from more than 350 national, regional, and specialty publications that embrace the world of sports in all its drama and excitement. Original.

About this title

Review:

George Plimpton, that most peripatetic of sporting literati, takes the reins on the latest edition of sportswriting's annual all-star team, and lets these thoroughbreds run. As usual, the smart money is on Roger Angell, Rick Reilly, David Remnick, and Tom Boswell, all of whom are represented, and long-shot David Halberstam makes his comeback with a fascinating profile of a fencer. But the roses go to the real derby winner in this year's group, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford for his long, lyrical, sometimes funny, sometimes profound meditation from Sports Afield on, of all thought-provoking arenas, hunting with his wife.

About the Author:

Founder of The Paris Review and a frequent contributer to Sports Illustraited, George Plimpton has written fourteen books. He currently lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0395797624
• ISBN 13: 9780395797624
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334
• Editor: Plimpton George, Stout Glenn