A Whole Other Ball Game
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Editor: Joli SandozEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-30
ISBN: 0374525218
Number of pages: 340
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Book Review: The funniest, saddest, most moving collection of sportswrite
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently selected this book for use in a new course I am teaching on sportswriting at the University of California, San Diego. When I went searching for a good example of sportswriting to counterbalance the many offerings by men, I was not encourage by the very small number of titles by women. This book astonished me in its variety and quality of contributions, AND it is fiction, which makes it all the more exiciting to read. Very personal, very gritty, very real. Read this book!
Summary of A Whole Other Ball Game
In recent decades the number of American girls and women committed to competitive sports has grown dramatically. Written by a wide range of authors, including Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, and Ellen Gilchrist, this wonderful collection of stories, poems, and novel excerpts deals with all the aspects of women's competitive sports.Imagine an all-star team of writers such as Adrienne Rich, Fannie Hurst, Marge Piercy, Betty Bao Lord, Maxine Kumin, Tess Gallagher, and Laurie Colwin. Now imagine them casting their considerable literary prowess into the sporting ring. These writers form the core of an impressive roster in this long-overdue anthology. Filled with passion and insight, these poems, stories, and excerpts play all fields and beautifully explore and explain the different layers of exuberance and anguish unique to the sporting experience of women. These are no simple tales of victory, but rather finely wrought musings on the genuine possibilities that sports and competition hold out to the human spirit.
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