- Published: 15 July 2016
- ISBN: 9780224100403
- Imprint: Yellow Jersey
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $24.99
Mad Ducks and Bears
Football Revisited
- Published: 15 July 2016
- ISBN: 9780224100403
- Imprint: Yellow Jersey
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $24.99
Plimpton has done it again
Sports Illustrated
[An] irreverent and roguish account of the lives of the two linesmen... Pure gold
Chicago Tribune
With his gentle, ironic tone, and unwillingness to take himself too seriously, along with Roger Angell, John Updike and Norman Mailer he made writing about sports something that mattered
Guardian
What drives these books, and has made them so popular, is Plimpton’s continuous bond-making with the reader and the comedy inherent in his predicament. He is the Everyman, earnests and frail, wandering in a world of supermen, beset by fears of catastrophic violence and public humiliation, yet gamely facing it all in order to survive and tell the tale… A prodigious linguistic ability is on display throughout, with a defining image often appended at the end of a sentence like a surprise dessert.
Timothy O'Grady, Times Literary Supplement