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Edie
American Girl
AvJean Stein,George Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
160 kr
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A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Born into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her. Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other.‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us… This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for’ Norman Mailer
Paper Lion
Confessions of a last-string quarterback
AvGeorge Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
160 kr
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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.
Bogey Man
A Month on the PGA Tour
AvGeorge Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
155 kr
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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? George Plimpton spent a month of self-imposed torture on the PGA tour to find out, meeting amateurs, pros, caddies, officials, fans and hangers-on along the way. 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.
Out of my League
An Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball
AvGeorge Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
160 kr
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From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. George Plimpton had the chance to answer every baseball fan’s question: could I strike out a major league star? Out of My League chronicles what happened next as his inspired idea – to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars of the American and National Leagues – got seriously out of hand. The original foray into participatory journalism that started it all, Out of my League announced George Plimpton as a giant of sports journalism, able to penetrate deep into the very spirit of sport, with his characteristic wit, charm and grace.
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
AvGeorge Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
385 kr
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Out of My League
AvGeorge Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
400 kr
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Bogey Man
AvGeorge Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
445 kr
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Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited
AvGeorge Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
435 kr
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One for the Record: The Inside Story of Hank Aaron's Chase for the Home Run Record
AvBob Costas,George Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
415 kr
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Beat Writers at Work
AvParis Review,George Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
298 kr
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Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
AvGeorge Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
285 kr
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Paris Review Anthology
AvGeorge Plimpton,George Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 1990
806 kr
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A selection of representative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the Anthology from 1953 to present.
The Norton Book of Sports
AvGeorge Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
709 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Plimpton's incredible compilation of the best sports writing ever.
Playwrights at Work: Interviews with Albee, Beckett, Guare, Hellman, Ionesco, Mamet, Miller, Pinter, Shepard, Simon, Stoppard, Wasserstein, Wilder, Wi
AvParis Review,George Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
341 kr
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Latin American Writers at Work
AvParis Review,George Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
330 kr
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Edie: American Girl
AvJean Stein,George Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
257 kr
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Edie
An American Biography
AvJean Stein,George Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2010
121 kr
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A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. Born into a wealthy New England Edie’s childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamourous father. Fleeing to New York, she became an instant celebrity, known to everyone in the literary, artistic and fashionable worlds. She was Warhol's twin soul, his creature, the superstar of his films and, finally, the victim of a life which he created for her. Jean Stein’s classic biography of Edie is an American fable on an epic scale - the story of a short, crowded and vivid life which is also the story of a decade like no other.‘Edie Sedgwick was the spirit of the sixties, and these pages capture her power to dazzle us… This is the book of the Sixties we have been waiting for’ Norman Mailer
Paper Lion
Confessions of a last-string quarterback
AvGeorge Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
121 kr
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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.
Shadow Box
An Amateur in the Ring
AvGeorge Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
121 kr
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From the author of Paper Lion Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he holds his own in the bout – and brings back this timeless book on boxing and its devotees, among them Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. Shadow Box is one of Plimpton’s most engaging portraits of professional sport seen through the eyes of an inquisitive and astute hopeful. From the gym, the locker room, the ringside, and even in the harsh glare of the ring itself, Plimpton documents what it truly means to be a boxer in some of the finest writing of his career.
Bogey Man
A Month on the PGA Tour
AvGeorge Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
121 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
From the author of Paper Lion What happens when a weekend athlete – of average skill at best – joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton spent a month of self-imposed torture on the PGA tour to find out, meeting amateurs, pros, caddies, officials, fans and hangers-on along the way. 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.
Open Net
A Professional Amateur in the World of Big-Time Hockey
AvGeorge Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
143 kr
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After forays into American football, golf and the world of professional boxing, George Plimpton accepts his riskiest assignment yet: taking to the ice as goalie for his beloved National Hockey League team, the Boston Bruins. Signing a release holding the Bruins blameless if he should meet with injury or worse, his initiation into the league’s toughest tribe begins. But when the Bruins find themselves up against the equally fearsome Philadelphia Flyers, a mere five minutes in the rink can seem an eternity. Told with Plimpton’s characteristic humour and insight, Open Net is at once a celebration of the thrills and grace of the greatest sport on ice, and a probing meditation into the hopes and fears of every man.
Mad Ducks and Bears
Football Revisited
AvGeorge Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
143 kr
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From the author of Paper Lion Following his turn as a Detroit Lions rookie in Paper Lion, George Plimpton returns to the field of American football and focuses on the careers of his Lions teammates, Alex ‘Mad Duck’ Karras and John ‘the Bear’ Gordy. What he uncovers is a fond tribute to the values and follies of this brutal, but captivating game.Paper Lion was the quintessential look at a football team behind the scenes and its companion, Mad Ducks and Bears, offers an astute exploration into the fascinating lives, thoughts and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.
Out of my League
An Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball
AvGeorge Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
121 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. George Plimpton had the chance to answer every baseball fan’s question: could I strike out a major league star? Out of My League chronicles what happened next as his inspired idea – to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars of the American and National Leagues – got seriously out of hand. The original foray into participatory journalism that started it all, Out of my League announced George Plimpton as a giant of sports journalism, able to penetrate deep into the very spirit of sport, with his characteristic wit, charm and grace.
As Told At the Explorers Club
More Than Fifty Gripping Tales Of Adventure
AvGeorge Plimpton
E-bok
Engelska, 2020
325 kr
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For more than a century, The Explorers Club has been the meeting place for some of the most daring adventurers on the planet. It's a legendary oasis, where a man just back from the Gobi Desert might kick back and, over some port, have a chat with a fellow off to Bandung.This updated edition includes a new foreword by Richard Wiese, the 44th president of The Explorers Club, and an all-new photo insert that takes readers inside the exclusive club and its world-famous adventure archives.Here then, are some of the best tales ever swapped at that capital of adventure, including:Anthony Fiola on being in close quarters with a polar bearCharles Lindbergh on his famous flightFelix Reisenberg on the ArcticAnne Keenleyside, Ph. D. on cannibalismRoald Amundsen on the explorer StefanssonMervyn Cowie on hunting killer lionsJean-Marc Boivin on hang-gliding Curtis and Kathleen Saville on oceanic rowingE. W. Deming on Sitting Bull's mysterious deathIt's some of the finest writing on some of the most hair-raising journeys ever made, all selected by the late George Plimpton, himself a member of The Explorers Club.
Truman Capote
AvGeorge Plimpton
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
254 kr
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Ernest Hemingway : den sista intervjun och andra konversationer
AvErnest Hemingway,George Plimptonm. fl.
Häftad, Svenska, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
112 kr
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”Den viktigaste talangen för en begåvad författare är en inbyggd, stötsäker, skitdetektor.” – Ernest Hemingway
En av det tjugonde århundradets mest inflytelserika litterära ikoner avslöjar mer av sig själv än någonsin tidigare i denna omfattande samling samtal från hela hans karriär. Här talar Hemingway ur hjärtat om kärlek, krig, berömmelse, fiske och om den lidelsefulla disciplin som drev hans skrivande framåt. Samtalen ger en fascinerande inblick i det liv och de verk som har behållit sitt grepp och sitt inflytande över generationer bokälskare, drömmare och äventyrare.
”Ernest … har en gnista av genialitet i sig som gör det möjligt för honom att klara av extraordinära saker med lätthet.” – F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
”En av de modigaste och bästa, med de hårdaste principer, den allra strängaste utövaren av författarhantverket, orubblig i sin hängivenhet till arbetet … Till de få som kände honom väl var han en nästan lika bra människa som böckerna han skrev. Han är inte död; ännu inte födda unga män och kvinnor med författardrömmar kommer att vederlägga att det ordet används om honom.” – WILLIAM FAULKNER
”Den mest enastående författaren sedan Shakespeare gick ur tiden … Alltid farlig. Alltid där med den där högern redo. Äkta vara.” – JOHN O’HARA
”Han åstadkom det som få konstnärer i vår tid, eller någon tid, lyckats med: den nästintill omöjliga bedriften att förkroppsliga sitt verks betydelse – som människa, i åsynen av världen och i den tid han levde i.” – TENNESEE WILLIAMS
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"Jag har alltid betraktat författare som pratar, eller ännu värre skriver, om sitt eget skrivande och läsande med skepsis. Det är tröttsamt med författare som har pretentionen att övertyga omgivningen om sin bildning. Det är därför jag med viss tveksamhet närmar mig Ernest Hemingway - den sista intervjun och andra konversationer. Fyra intervjuer senare, två från 1954 och två från 1958, vill jag tacka Sjösala förlag och översättaren Daniel Martinez för läsfesten." - ÅSA LINDERBORG, AFTONBLADET KULTUR
Best of Plimpton
AvGeorge Plimpton
Inbunden, Engelska, 1994
142 kr
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George Plimpton – författare

Edie

Paper Lion

Bogey Man

Out of my League

Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

Out of My League

Bogey Man

Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited

One for the Record: The Inside Story of Hank Aaron's Chase for the Home Run Record

Beat Writers at Work

Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

Paris Review Anthology

The Norton Book of Sports

Playwrights at Work: Interviews with Albee, Beckett, Guare, Hellman, Ionesco, Mamet, Miller, Pinter, Shepard, Simon, Stoppard, Wasserstein, Wilder, Wi

Latin American Writers at Work

Edie: American Girl

Edie

Paper Lion

Shadow Box

Bogey Man

Open Net

Mad Ducks and Bears

Out of my League

As Told At the Explorers Club

Truman Capote

Ernest Hemingway : den sista intervjun och andra konversationer

Best of Plimpton

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