{"product_id":"the-bogey-man-9780224100267","title":"The Bogey Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Plimpton\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(1927-2003) was the bestselling author and editor of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and editor of the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He wrote regularly for such magazines as \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, and he appeared numerous times in films and on television.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHumorous but also agonizing and also unfailingly fascinating regardless of one's interest in golf. For the psychology of the sport - and this is what Mr. Plimpton is probing - there is nothing more revealing around * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003ePlimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that * Newsweek *\u003cbr\u003eGolf is a lonely and private game, lacking the natural drama of football, but Plimpton, by subsituting improvisation for plot, has caught its mad comedy and bizarre effects on people in a book just as charming, in its own way, as \u003ci\u003ePaper Lion\u003c\/i\u003e * Life *\u003cbr\u003eWith his gentle, ironic tone, and unwillingness to take himself too seriously, along with Roger Angell, John Updike and Norman Mailer he made writing about sports something that mattered * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eWhat drives these books, and has made them so popular, is Plimpton’s continuous bond-making with the reader and the comedy inherent in his predicament. He is the Everyman, earnests and frail, wandering in a world of supermen, beset by fears of catastrophic violence and public humiliation, yet gamely facing it all in order to survive and tell the tale…  A prodigious linguistic ability is on display throughout, with a defining image often appended at the end of a sentence like a surprise dessert. -- Timothy O'Grady * Times Literary Supplement *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732897640791,"sku":"9780224100267","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780224100267.jpg?v=1719998860","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bogey-man-9780224100267","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}