A Whole Other Ball Game: Women's Literature on Women's Sport | 
 enlarge | Creator: Joli Sandoz
Publisher: Noonday Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 931193
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 323
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0374525218
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.80355
EAN: 9780374525217
ASIN: 0374525218
Publication Date: September 1997
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Condition: An ex-library used copy. Pages clear except for a few library markings. Cover clear. Softly worn edges and corners. Binding solid and tight.
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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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The funniest, saddest, most moving collection of sportswrite November 19, 1999
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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!
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