Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback
Paperback Published on: 04/08/2016
£10.99
Synopsis
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.
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780224100229
- Number of pages: 384
- Weight: 266g
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 mm