Pumping Granite: And Other Portraits of People at Play [Hardcover]

Mike D'Orso (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1994

From rock climbing to rodeo, sumo wrestling to slow-pitch softball, boomerangs to bowling, this collection of articles by one of America's leading journalists probes the lives of people at play. From arctic Alaska to an island in the Bahamas, these pieces crawl into the more remote nooks and crannies of our culture, showing what our sporting passions and obsessions say about us as individuals and as a society. Funky, fascinating, heroic, and compassionate, Pumping Granite is a one-of-a-kind book about men, women, and children and the unusual games they play.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press (January 15, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0896723380
ISBN-13: 978-0896723382
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,762,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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› Visit Amazon's Michael D'Orso Page

Mike D'Orso's work includes 16 books, eight of which have been bestsellers, three of which have been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is OCEANA:Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them, written with actor/activist Ted Danson

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First Sentence:
IN SOME WAYS, IT SEEMED LIKE ANY OTHER SATURDAY night at Hampton's Langley Raceway. Read the first page

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New York, Virginia Beach, Fair Lanes, North Carolina, Double Dutch, Hampton Roads, United States, Hong Kong, New Jersey, Los Angeles, Penn State, John Shaw, Dennis Byrd, Newport News, Barbara Spivey, East Coast, Gil Granger, Gorden Hughson, Curtis Bush, Karen Bobulinski, Mac Stroud, Mary Lou, Mitchell Byrd, Norfolk State, Queen City

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This book cites 11 books:

The Town and the City by Jack Kerouac on 7 pages
On the Road by Jack Kerouac on 5 pages
Naked Lunch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by William Burroughs on page 116
Jingle Bells (Sing-Along Storybook) by Public Domain on page 234
Grandmasters of Chess by Harold C. Schonberg on page 75

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