Dispatches from the Sporting Life

Product Description
Between such novels as The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, St. Urbain’s Horseman, and Barney’s Version, Mordecai Richler pursued his obsession with sports-and he wrote brilliantly about such sports as ice hockey, baseball, salmon fishing, bodybuilding, and wrestling. His essays and articles appeared in such prominent and diverse places as GQ, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Inside Sports, Commentary, and The New York Review of Books.
Richler spent time wit… More >>

Dispatches from the Sporting Life

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Related posts

Sporting Life: Flat Results 1995

Sporting Life: Flat Results 1995

Tags: , , , , ,

Related posts

Royal Racing: The Queen and Queen Mother’s Sporting Life

Product Description
The Queen and Queen Mother’s abiding passion for horse racing has endured through impressive triumphs and crushing disappointments. This thoroughly researched account of their achievements is fully illustrated and rich in anecdotes from key figures of the racing world…. More >>

Royal Racing: The Queen and Queen Mother’s Sporting Life

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Related posts

Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII

Product Description
Volume XXIII of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores the role of sports in modern Jewish history. The centrality of sports in modern life–in popular and even in high culture, in economic life, in the media, in international and national politics, and in forging ethnic identities–can hardly be exaggerated, but in the field of Jewish studies this subject has been somewhat neglected, at least until recently. Students of American Jewish hist… More >>

Jews and the Sporting Life: Studies in Contemporary Jewry XXIII

Tags: , , , , , ,

Related posts

This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life

Tags: , , ,

Related posts