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The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz: A Library of...
by Heinz, W. C. | HC | LikeNew
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
159853372X
ISBN-13
9781598533729
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038374615
Product Key Features
Book Title
Top of His Game : the Best Sportswriting of W. C. Heinz
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Boxing, General, Essays, Sports
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
28.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-946643
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Heinz could make sentences sing, but his special gift was somehow to sound the chord of music that was the man. The subjects of his profiles lived and breathed and laughed and wept with unforgettable vitality., Heinz is that rare writer who not only becomes more important over time but more essential. His work deserves to be read and treasured by a new generation of readers., Heinz had it all-a deep understanding of human nature, a wonderful sense of humor, and a writing style so clear and clean that he makes the difficult seem easy, just the way a great athlete does., Bill Heinz was not just one of the great sports writers this country has ever produced, he was simply one of the great American writers., Bill Heinz is not just one of the great sportswriters this country has produced, he is one of the great American writers.
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
796
Synopsis
Bill Littlefield (NPR's Only a Game ) presents the second installment in the Library of America series devoted to classic American sportswriters, a defintive collector's edition of the pathbreaking writer who invented the long-form sports story. Like his friend and admirer Red Smith, W. C. Heinz (1915-2008) was one of the most distinctive and influential sportswriters of the last century. Though he began his career as a newspaper reporter, Heinz soon moved beyond the confines of the daily column, turning freelance and becoming the first sportwriter to make his living writing for magazines. In doing so he effectively invented the long-form sports story, perfecting a style that paved the way for the New Journalism of the 1960s. His profiles of the top athletes of his day still feel remarkably current, written with a freshness of perception, a gift for characterization, and a finely tuned ear for dialogue. Jimmy Breslin named Heinz's "Brownsville Bum"--a brief life of Al "Bummy" Davis, Brooklyn street tough and onetime welterweight champion of the world--"the greatest magazine sports story I've ever read, bar none." His spare and powerful 1949 column, "Death of a Race Horse," has been called a literary classic, a work of clarity and precision comparable to Hemingway at his best. Now, for this essential writer's centennial, Bill Littlefield, the host of NPR's Only A Game, presents the essential Heinz: thirty-eight columns, profiles, and memoirs from the author's personal archive, including eighteen pieces never collected during his lifetime. Though Heinz's great passion was boxing--the golden era of Rocky Graziano, Floyd Patterson, and Sugar Ray Robinson--his interests extended to the wide world of sports, with indelible profiles of baseball players (Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio), jockeys (George Woolf, Eddie Arcaro), hockey players, football coaches, scouts and trainers and rodeo riders., W. C. Heinz (1915-2008) is widely regarded as one of America's greatest sportswriters. With a freshness of perception, a gift for characterisation, and an ear for dialogue and for the rhythms of American speech, he brought a novelist's sensibility to every assignment. Jimmy Breslin called Heinz's Brownsville Bum', a brief life of Al 'Bummy' Davis, Brooklyn street tough and onetime welterweight champion of the world, the best magazine story of any kind, ever.'
LC Classification Number
GV565.2
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