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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.
Humorous but also agonizing and also unfailingly fascinating
regardless of one's interest in golf. For the psychology of the
sport - and this is what Mr. Plimpton is probing - there is nothing
more revealing around
*New York Times*
Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge
from a putter... This is really a book about a kind of madness with
rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that
*Newsweek*
Golf is a lonely and private game, lacking the natural drama of
football, but Plimpton, by subsituting improvisation for plot, has
caught its mad comedy and bizarre effects on people in a book just
as charming, in its own way, as Paper Lion
*Life*
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*
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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