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A Sport and a Pastime
| Author | : James Salter |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2012-06-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 145324381X |
The astonishing novel and “tour de force” about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is (The New York Times Book Review). Twenty-year-old Yale dropout Phillip Dean is traveling Europe aimlessly in a borrowed car with little money. When he stops for a few days in a church-quiet town near Dijon, he meets Anne-Marie Costallat, a young shop assistant. The two begin an affair both carnal and innocent, and she quickly becomes to him the real France, its beating heart and an object of pure longing. James Salter, author of Light Years and the memoir Burning the Days, was an essential voice in the evolution of late twentieth-century prose, a stylist on par with Updike and Roth who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for his collection Dusk and Other Stories. One of the first great American novels to speak frankly of human desire free of guilt and shame, A Sport and a Pastime inspired Reynolds Price to call it “as nearly perfect as any American fiction I know.” This ebook edition features an illustrated biography of James Salter including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
England's Revelry
| Author | : Emma Griffin |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2005-08-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780197263211 |
Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes.
The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games
| Author | : Jack McConnell |
| Publisher | : Lyons Press |
| Total Pages | : 620 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 9781585741151 |
First published in 1864, this book presents a lively portrait of indoor and outdoor amusements in the 19th century--from games played with homemade toys to baseball as a new pastime. Also included are chapters on card games, arithmetical and scientific stumpers, and puzzles. Over 1,000 illustrations.
Bad Sports
| Author | : Dave Zirin |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2010-07-20 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1439175748 |
A THOUGHT-PROVOKING LOOK AT THE BIG BUSINESS AND IMMORAL PRACTICES BEHIND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS BY ACCLAIMED SPORTSWRITER DAVE ZIRIN, HAILED AS THE “CONSCIENCE OF AMERICAN SPORTSWRITING” (THE WASHINGTON POST ) The fastest-growing sector of today’s sports audience is the alienated fan. Complaints abound: from inflated ticket prices, $6 hot dogs, and $9 beers to owners endlessly demanding new multimillion-dollar stadiums funded by public tax dollars. Those sitting in the owners’ boxes are increasingly placing profit over players’ performances and fan loyalty. Bad Sports cuts through the hype and bombast to zero in on tales of abusive, dictatorial owners who move their teams thousands of miles away from their fan base, use their stadiums as religious and political platforms, or hold communities ransom for millions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund their gargantuan stadiums. As the multibillion-dollar sports-industrial complex continues to lumber along, Dave Zirin is the voice in the wilderness, speaking out for the common fan with a tough, passionate, and intelligent voice that will remind readers that there is more to sportswriting than glowing athlete profiles.
National Pastimes
| Author | : Katharina Bonzel |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2020-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1496218248 |
Sports have long fascinated filmmakers from Hollywood and beyond, from Bend It Like Beckham to Chariots of Fire to Rocky. Though sports films are diverse in their approach, style, and storytelling modes, National Pastimes discloses the common emotional and visual cues that belie each sports film's underlying nationalistic impulses. Katharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts, demonstrating in the process how popular culture provides a powerful vehicle for the development and maintenance of identities of place across a range of national cinemas. As films reflect the ways in which myths of nation and national belonging change over time, they are implicated in important historical moments, from Cold War America to the class dynamics of 1980s Thatcherite Britain to the fragmented sense of nation in post-unification Germany. Bonzel shows how sports films provide a means for renegotiating the boundaries of national identity in an accessible, engaging form. National Pastimes opens up new ways of understanding how films appeal to the emotions, using myth-like constructions of the past to cultivate spectators' engagement with historical events.
National Pastime
| Author | : Stefan Szymanski |
| Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780815782599 |
Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world.
American National Pastimes - A History
| Author | : Mark Dyreson |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2016-04-14 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1317572688 |
When the colonies that became the USA were still dominions of the British Empire they began to imagine their sporting pastimes as finer recreations than even those enjoyed in the motherland. From the war of independence and the creation of the republic to the twenty-first century, sporting pastimes have served as essential ingredients in forging nationhood in American history. This collection gathers the work of an all-star team of historians of American sport in order to explore the origins and meanings of the idea of national pastimes—of a nation symbolized by its sports. These wide-ranging essays analyze the claims of particular sports to national pastime status, from horse racing, hunting, and prize fighting in early American history to baseball, basketball, and football more than two centuries later. These essays also investigate the legal, political, economic, and culture patterns and the gender, ethnic, racial, and class dynamics of national pastimes, connecting sport to broader historical themes. American National Pastimes chronicles how and why the USA has used sport to define and debate the contours of nation. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
