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The Cost of These Dreams
Wright Thompson
其他書名
Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
出版
Bonnier Zaffre
, 2019-04-08
主題
Sports & Recreation / General
Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN
1788701976
9781788701976
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jnWKDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The
New York Times
bestseller
'Full of rich characters, bad actors, heroes, drama, suffering, courage, conflict, and vivid detail' John Grisham
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From one of America's most beloved sportswriters, a collection of true stories about the dream of greatness and its cost in the world of sports.
There is only one Wright Thompson. His work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN and has been anthologised in
The Best American Sports Writing
books ten times. But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurty's
Lonesome Dove
is a book about a cattle drive. Wright Thompson figures people out. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Lionel Messi or Pat Riley, he strips away the self-serving myths and fantasies to fully reveal his characters, and what drives them, in a way that few others can.
Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving,
The Cost of These Dreams
is an ode to the reporter's art and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.
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'Proves that the best sports writing is never about sport, but the human condition. Thompson writes vividly about things I didn't see but wish I had done' Duncan Hamilton,
Guardian
Best Books of the Year
'Wright Thompson performs that nifty bit of sportswriting hoodoo, virtually out of vogue today: he subordinates self to story.
Stylishly, intelligently, incisively, deftly, he keeps his priorities straight.
It's why I read him' Richard Ford