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Sto caricando le informazioni... Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Lifedi Lynne Truss
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Entertaining, smartly written, and also thought-provoking. I'd assumed it was an anthology of amusing pieces on various sporting events, but although it can be read in part as such, it is in fact an account of Lynne Truss's spell as a Sports Writer; how she got into it, her experiences, and reflections now it is in the past. There's some acute stuff about the nature of sport and sports-writing, and accounts of her likes (golf, cricket) and dislikes (motor-racing, basketball). The sections on Agassi and Holyfield-Lewis are absorbing and penetrating. A good read. ( ) As a woman who writes about sport (albeit in a more academic context) despite being a decidedly unsportly person who, like Truss, is usually more interested in books, film and a lot of telly, reading this book involved a lot of out-loud laughter and exclamations of, "Dear god, yes, woman, I know what you mean!" Truss won me over completely with Eats, Shoots and Leaves (and I am painfully aware of my puncutation as I write this and fear I have probably made several mistakes) and I graze through The Lynne Truss Treasury whenever the fancy takes me, knowing I am always sure to open up to a gem. In short, I am a bit of a fan. Aside from her wonderful sense of humour, what is most striking about Get Her Off The Pitch is the sense of generosity in her thinking, her ability to be open-minded in all manner of bizarre sporting situations. She throws herself into the challenge and approaches each task creatively, if with an ever-present (and understandable) sense of utter bewilderment. If all sports writing was this buoyant, articulate, literary and utterly hilarious, I would read it all the time. Lynn Truss actively avoids sport. So, wouldn't it be a great idea to make her a sports reporter for The Times? Often as not the only woman reporter, she provides copy for the newspaper on boxing, football, tennis, cricket, golf, rugby and even darts. Truss examines the reasons for sport's popularity; why sport's reporting is almost exclusively male; and what made some sports more appealing than others. It is often hilariously funny but also a poignant insight into the life of a sport's reporter. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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From the bestselling author of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves', this is the hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism. 'Years ago, Boris Becker famously said, after losing at Wimbledon, "Nobody died. I just lost a tennis match." And while some people applauded him for his healthy sense of proportion, it didn't ring remotely true. While I was writing about sport, I was caught on the horns of this dilemma for the whole bloody time. I was like the poor confused jurors in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' who sit in their jury box, writing emphatically on their little slates, both "important" and "not important" because they honestly don't have a clue.' In this magnificent book, Lynne Truss charts her often bizarre wanderings during her time as a sports journalist for the 'Sunday Times'. From covering a heavyweight world title fight at Madison Square Garden, to watching England beat Holland from an airship above Wembley (while eating chocolate cake); from her extravagant feelings about Andre Agassi, to covering sports like cricket (where, initially, she didn't have any idea what was going on), Lynne Truss manages to crystallize exactly the essence of what sport is about, and bring her characteristic wisdom and wry humour to it. The book will be a revelation to sport's foolish doubters, and a treat for the many of us who spend too much of our time watching it. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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