false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1239119192m/215251.jpg 215251 6 Through the course of a long and distinguished career in letters, George Plimpton has crafted an art form from participatory journalism, and <i>Paper Lion</i> is his big touchdown. In the mid-'60s, Plimpton joined the Detroit Lions at their preseason camp as a 36-year-old rookie quarterback wannabe, and stuck with the club through an intra-squad game before the paying public a month later. What resulted is one of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on the game; 30 years later it remains a major model of what was then blossoming into New Journalism. Plimpton's breezy style wonderfully captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront in trying to make it, the hijinks that pervade the atmosphere when 60 high-strung guys are forced to live together in close quarters, and the host of rites and rituals with which football loves to coat itself. Of course, Plimpton didn't make it as a football hero; he barely accounts himself with dignity on the field, which is just as well. You don't have to be a lion when you've got a typewriter that can roar. 1998562 1966 Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback total:149|5:28|4:67|3:51|2:2|1:1| 149 566 241 13 3 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 14:14:57 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 13:44:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 09:55:13 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 18:41:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 21:29:50 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 12:09:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 13:52:35 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 11:01:15 -0700 2008
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