Biographies and autobiographies
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St. Louis, Mo. : Vendanta Society of St. Louis, 1989
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Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2011
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Auckland, N.Z. : Random House, 2011
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Vancouver : Talonbooks, c2005
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Vancouver : UBC Press, c2006
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Abstract
George Plimpton was perhaps best known for PAPER LION, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals.
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Ottawa : Oberon Press, c1977
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Washington : Howard University Press, 1980
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London ; New York : Verso, 2008
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London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991
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Abstract
In this searing, brilliantly acclaimed memoir, one of the most admired writers of his generation reveals how a decade of alcohol, drugs, and other indulgences led him not to the palace of wisdom but to a psychiatric hospital in one of New York's less exalted boroughs.
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Boston : Little, Brown, c2002
