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From the author of Semi-Tough comes a hilarious novel chronicling one year in the life of irreverent sports columnist Jim Tom Pinch. Jim Tom Pinch is a unabashed sportswriter who has followed around and reported on too many blonde-haired skiers, basketball players with names like Potatus Fry, and Russian figure skaters who want to know how much a house with a toilet costs in America. Now he tells the story of a year of romance, cursing, bimbos, touchdowns, pandering, padded expense accounts--from the Olympics to the Indy 500 to the heavyweight championship--a year that will leave neither Jim Tom nor the wide world of sports the same. "Bawdy, bitter, very funny...Jenkins's farewell salute to big-time sportswriting is a tell-all novel that deflates the hype around each and every event, from the Olympics to the Kentucky Derby to Wimbledon (Kirkus Reviews).… (mais)
Jim Tom Pinch gets center stage this time, in a humorous (and possibly libelous) look at sports writing. Jim Tom writes for a weekly sports magazine that is not SI. We learn about the upper echelons of magazine publishing from a distinctly sarcastic point of view. We also follow Jim Tom to several mega-events (The Masters, The NCAA basketball finals, The Super Bowl, The Olympics, etc.) and meet a number of unforgettable characters. A bit less lust than "Semi-Tough," a little bit more romance - although he underplays his feelings considerably. I love Jenkins' writing - and this one makes me laugh. ( )
I don't collect autographs, but if I could have one book autographed, this would be the one. It's probably not nearly as good if you aren't a sportswriter, but I am, and I think it is brilliant. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To the memory of Andre Laguerre, last of a breed - a writer's Managing Editor.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Here's how I want the phony little conniving, no-talent, preppiewad asshole of a editor to die: I lace his decaf with Seconal and strap him down in such a way that his head is fastened to my desk and I thump him at cheery intervals with the carriage on my Olympia standard.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
So it was happy endings all around, the only known happy endings in the modern history of magazine journalism, and I said to Wayne one night in the neighborood tavern that if Nell could see to it that my column went another three whole months without a parenthesis in the lead, I just might marry that girl.
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From the author of Semi-Tough comes a hilarious novel chronicling one year in the life of irreverent sports columnist Jim Tom Pinch. Jim Tom Pinch is a unabashed sportswriter who has followed around and reported on too many blonde-haired skiers, basketball players with names like Potatus Fry, and Russian figure skaters who want to know how much a house with a toilet costs in America. Now he tells the story of a year of romance, cursing, bimbos, touchdowns, pandering, padded expense accounts--from the Olympics to the Indy 500 to the heavyweight championship--a year that will leave neither Jim Tom nor the wide world of sports the same. "Bawdy, bitter, very funny...Jenkins's farewell salute to big-time sportswriting is a tell-all novel that deflates the hype around each and every event, from the Olympics to the Kentucky Derby to Wimbledon (Kirkus Reviews).
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