Mike Lupica
Autore di Heat
Sull'Autore
Michael Lupica (born on May 11, 1952 in Oneida, New York) is an American newspaper columnist. At the age of 23, Lupica began his newspaper career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post. In 1977, he became the youngest columnist ever at a New York newspaper when he started working for mostra altro the New York Daily News. He has also written for numerous magazines during his career including Golf Digest, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, ESPN: The Magazine, Men's Journal and Parade. In 2003, he received the Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation. He has been a television anchor for ESPN's The Sports Reporters and hosted his own program The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2. Lupica has written both fiction and non-fiction books. His novels include Dead Air; Limited Partner; Jump; Full Court Press; Red Zone; Too Far; Wild Pitch; and Bump and Run. He also writes the Mike Lupica's Comeback Kids series. He co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells and collaborated with William Goldman on Wait Till Next Year. His other non-fiction works include The Summer of '98; Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and How We Get It Back; and Shooting from the Lip. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Mike Lupica
Fathers & Sons & Sports: Great Writing by Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel,… (2008) — Introduzione — 24 copie
Shooting from the Lip: Essays, Columns, Quips, and Gripes in the Grand Tradition of Dyspeptic Sports Writing (1988) 4 copie
Comeback Kids 2-Pack: Hot Hand & Two Minute Drill (A Comback Kids Novel) (2009) 4 copie, 1 recensione
books 3 copie
Pippi Longstocking (series) 2 copie
Hot Hand : a Comeback Kid novel 1 copia
Game Changers Play Makers 1 copia
Team Player 1 copia
RobertParker’s Fallout 1 copia
Tw-minute drill 1 copia
Opere correlate
Murder Is My Racquet: Fourteen Original Tales of Love, Death, and Tennis by Today's Great Writers (2005) — Collaboratore — 27 copie, 1 recensione
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Lupica, Michael
- Data di nascita
- 1952-05-11
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Oneida, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Boston College (BA|1974)
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
novelist - Organizzazioni
- ESPN
New York Daily News
New York Post
Esquire
Newspaper Guild of America - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Jim Murray Award (2003)
- Agente
- Esther Newberg (ICM Partners)
The Lavin Agency
Utenti
Recensioni
Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser) di Mike Lupica
Current events in plot brought the story to life. It was interesting to read a Spenser novel again. I would guess the 80s or 90 s would have been the last time. I once heard Parker interviewed on NPR. I’m sure I read several of his books at the time. I enjoyed this enough I’ll have to start over. There is there Boston scenery, his girlfriend Susan, and Hawke. It of a story of murder, high finance, jealousy, and lithium batteries.
Mike Lupica's first attempt at a Spenser novel holds up well. A worthy successor to Ace Atkins who had been carrying the Spenser torch since Robert Parker's death.
Chris Bancells
Lupica, M. (2006). Heat. New York: Puffin Books.
Sports
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominee (2007-2008)
Print
Selection tools consulted: School Library Journal, WorldCat, Maryland Association of School Librarians Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominee list (2007-2008).
Review:
There're no two ways about it, 12-year-old Michael Arroyo can pitch. An undeniable phenom, this Cuban exile will take his team, the Clippers, out of the Bronx and into the Little League World Series...if he can keep the biggest secret of his life. Michael's father died a few months before the novel opens, leaving Michael and his brother Carlos, who is only 17, on their own. With no legal status and no family in the country, the Arroyo boys have to keep their heads down until September, when Carlos turns 18. The more Michael pitches, however, the more attention he attracts. As the competition heats up, tempers and jealousies flare until a group of rival coaches demand to see Michael's birth certificate. They're convinced he's older than 12, and he's convinced that that piece of paper never left Havana when his father did. Sidelined, Michael is desperately looking for a way back into the game he loves, all the while trying to figure out a girl who is more than she appears. Lupica keeps the plot moving throughout the novel and uses well-developed, interesting characters to maintain a relatively low cliché count (especially for a sports story). The complicated nature of illegal immigration is rendered in a way which makes it immediate to Michael and Carlos, and understandable to the reader. Given the current political climate, this novel proves itself still timely seven years after publication. Recommended.
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Lupica, M. (2006). Heat. New York: Puffin Books.
Sports
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominee (2007-2008)
Selection tools consulted: School Library Journal, WorldCat, Maryland Association of School Librarians Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominee list (2007-2008).
Review:
There're no two ways about it, 12-year-old Michael Arroyo can pitch. An undeniable phenom, this Cuban exile will take his team, the Clippers, out of the Bronx and into the Little League World Series...if he can keep the biggest secret of his life. Michael's father died a few months before the novel opens, leaving Michael and his brother Carlos, who is only 17, on their own. With no legal status and no family in the country, the Arroyo boys have to keep their heads down until September, when Carlos turns 18. The more Michael pitches, however, the more attention he attracts. As the competition heats up, tempers and jealousies flare until a group of rival coaches demand to see Michael's birth certificate. They're convinced he's older than 12, and he's convinced that that piece of paper never left Havana when his father did. Sidelined, Michael is desperately looking for a way back into the game he loves, all the while trying to figure out a girl who is more than she appears. Lupica keeps the plot moving throughout the novel and uses well-developed, interesting characters to maintain a relatively low cliché count (especially for a sports story). The complicated nature of illegal immigration is rendered in a way which makes it immediate to Michael and Carlos, and understandable to the reader. Given the current political climate, this novel proves itself still timely seven years after publication. Recommended.
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Pretty good version of Robert Parker's writing. Quick read. Pen Bay Hospital book.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 86
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 18,804
- Popolarità
- #1,160
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 411
- ISBN
- 713
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 7
