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Truman Capote by George Plimpton 9780385491730
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385491730Author George PlimptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell... -
Norton Book of Sports by George Plimpton 9780393030402
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $84.42When it comes to popularity, American enthusiasm for sports is right up there with mom and apple pie. From this long love affair with the games of men and boys--and, increasingly, women--has sprung a... -
The Paris Review Anthology by George Plimpton 9780393027693
RRP: $108.15Booksplease Price: $99.08A selection of representative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the Anthology from 1953 to present.Book InformationISBN 9780393027693Author George PlimptonFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint WW... -
Idealism And The Modern Age by George Plimpton Adams 9781498003971
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $60.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498003971Author George Plimpton AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited by George Plimpton 9780316326445
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $52.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316326445Author George PlimptonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Little Brown and... -
The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour by George Plimpton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54From 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... -
Paper Lion: Confessions of a last-string quarterback by George Plimpton
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54In 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,... -
The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour by George Plimpton 9780316326261
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $53.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316326261Author George PlimptonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Little Brown and... -
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback by George Plimpton 9780316284509
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $45.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316284509Author George PlimptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little Brown and... -
Out of my League: An Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball by George Plimpton 9780224100410
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54From 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... -
The Mystical Element In Hegel's Early Theological Writings by George Plimpton Adams 9781494169633
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494169633Author George Plimpton AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Mystical Element In Hegel's Early Theological Writings by George Plimpton Adams 9781497933156
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $37.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497933156Author George Plimpton AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
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Out of my League: An Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball by George Plimpton 9780224100410 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $5.65From 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... -
Out of My League: The Classic Account of an Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball by George Plimpton 9780316284547
Booksplease Price: $46.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316284547Author George PlimptonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Little Brown and... -
One for the Record: The Inside Story of Hank Aaron's Chase for the Home Run Record by George Plimpton 9780316326933
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $50.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316326933Author George PlimptonFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Little Brown and... -
George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative Observers by Nelson W. Aldrich 9780812974188
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974188Author Nelson W. AldrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Trade... -
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup by J. L. Carr
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.38'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor' DJ Taylor'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. CarrIn... -
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered by Jim O'Loughlin 9780817320119
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $69.93A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), who began his writing career working for popular... -
The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature by Josh Lambert
Booksplease Price: $62.56An investigation into the transformation of publishing in the United States from a field in which Jews were systematically excluded to one in which they became ubiquitous "Readers with an interest... -
The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes by Rick Bass
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $36.96On the Road meets Tuesdays with Morrie in this pilgrimage by "an American classic" (Newsweek) to thank his most important mentors through memorable meals and conversations"Some years later, George... -
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind 9780300281910
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.66An account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the "godfather" of the genre "When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing... -
Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers by Joel Whitney 9781944869526
Booksplease Price: $30.93When news broke that the CIA had colluded with literary magazines to produce cultural propaganda throughout the Cold War, a debate began that has never been resolved. The story continues to unfold,... -
Miracle at Augusta James Patterson 9781784750220
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23An inspiring story of hope, redemption, and trying to hit the ball straightA little over a year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown rookie, shocked the world by winning the US Senior Open at Pebble... -
The Encyclopedia of New York by The Editors of New York Magazine 9781501166952
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $54.66The must-have guide to pop culture, history, and world-changing ideas that started in New York City, from the magazine at the center of it all. Since its founding in 1624, New York City has been a... -
Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19This is the story of one man's fight against a multibillion dollar colossus. A man who stood up for what was right, whatever the cost. The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the... -
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham 9780241471487
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68BEST BOOK OF 2023 ACCORDING TO THE NEWSTATESMAN AND OBSERVER'The Swimmer is a wonderful, original achievement; teeming with stories, glittering with images, and experimental in form and tone' Robert... -
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54A 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 -... -
Granta 49: Money 9780140140880
Booksplease Price: $33.62Writers and photographers define what money means to them. The book includes pieces by: Richard Rayner, Steve Puke, Ian Hamilton, James Buchan, Kevin Jackson, Jonathon Raban, Chang-Rae Lee, Helen... -
Sports Illustrated The Football Vault: Great Writing from the Pages of Sports Illustrated 9781637275399
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $38.58Sports Illustrated, the most respected voice in sports journalism, has covered the National Football League for over seven decades, documenting its heroes, villains, great characters, and iconic... -
The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2001 by William M. Simons 9780786413577
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $75.33This is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Thirteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 6-8, 2001, and co-sponsored by the State University of New... -
The Watch: Stories by Rick Bass 9780393311358
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $30.87Set in the South and West, they pursue themes of friendship, loyalty, and freedom, of escape, where valiant holdouts refuse to grow up, or to grow old.About the AuthorRick Bass lives in the Yaak... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 1 Philip Gourevitch 9781841959252
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07From William Faulkner's famous reply, 'The writer's only responsibility is to his art,' to James Salter's confession 'What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish', the... -
My Korean Deli: Risking it All for a Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe 9781250002471
Booksplease Price: $21.88It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a store. Howe, an editor at the rarefied "Paris... -
Conversations with Joseph Heller by Adam J. Sorkin 9781617036989
Booksplease Price: $57.67Spanning three decades of his literary career, from Catch-22 to comments on the Persian Gulf War, Conversations with Joseph Heller contains a selection of the most significant, informative, and... -
Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat by David Amram 9781594514258
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $74.03David Amram-composer, jazz artist, conductor, and world music pioneer-has been described by the Boston Globe as "the Renaissance man of American music." From early collaborations with Kerouac and... -
First-person Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870-1937 by Zachary Michael Jack 9780786439539
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field, arena, track and ring. This first-of-its-kind anthology of participatory... -
New Journalism by Tom Wolfe
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05'The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's... -
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook by Linda Wagner-Martin 9780195145731
RRP: $140.70Booksplease Price: $106.49Still the most popular book of Hemingway's to teach, The Sun Also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britains in Paris after World War I. As the international... -
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: A Casebook by Linda Wagner-Martin 9780195145748
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $69.30Still the most popular book of Hemingway's to teach, The Sun Also Rises captures the quintessential romance of the expatriate Americans and Britains in Paris after World War I. As the international... -
Portraits of Genius Friends by Sandra Hochman
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $33.16Sandra Hochman seemingly knew everyone, and throughout her life, she captured those friends' likenesses in one-of-a-kind watercolors that now adorn the walls of her Manhattan apartment. Hochman's...