Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile - Rilegato

Jackson, Nate

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ISBN 10: 0062108026 ISBN 13: 9780062108029

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2013

Riassunto

From scouting combines to game-day routines, this candid, no-holds-barred account of ordinary life in the NFL brings to light the story of hundreds of everyday, expendable players whose lives, unlike those of their superstar colleagues, aren't captured in high-definition. 30,000 first printing.

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“That screaming you hear coming across the sky? It’s a wobbly spiral...Slow Getting Up is everything you want football memoirs to be but never are: hilarious, dirty, warm, human, honest, weird.” (Dwight Garner, New York Times)

“Excellent...busts through pro football’s prevailing mythology...Nate Jackson gives us the game warts and all, but never in a drag-ass, woe-is-me way. A really fine book. Man can write.” ( Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk )

“A tremendously authentic, inside-the-locker-room view is unveiled with Jackson’s myriad stories, clever wit, skillful prose and perfect dose of sophomoric humor.” (San Jose Mercury News)

“Simply the best book by a former player about life in the NFL that you will read. Maybe the best book period about life in the NFL that you will read.” ( Stefan Fatsis, author of A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL )

“Slow Getting Up tells the whole truth about the NFL. Painfully honest and remarkably funny, it’s far and away the best ‘insider’ book about pro sports since Jim Bouton’s Ball Four.” (Scott Raab, author of The Whore of Akron)

“The book the world has been waiting for. “Ball Four” for the football world is here at last.” ( Tom Junod, via Twitter )

“Fantastic.” (Jonathan Mahler, Bloomberg)

“The best football memoir ever.” (Rolling Stone)

“Excellent.” (New Republic)

L'autore:

Nate Jackson played six seasons in the National Football League as a wide receiver and a tight end. His writing has appeared in Deadspin, Slate, Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. A native of San Jose, California, he now lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062108026
• ISBN 13: 9780062108029
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 243