The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese
Gay Talese, "The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese"
English | ISBN: 0802777538 | 2010 | 320 pages | EPUB | 878 KB
English | ISBN: 0802777538 | 2010 | 320 pages | EPUB | 878 KB
One of America's most acclaimed writers and journalists, Gay Talese has been fascinated by sports throughout his life. At age fifteen he became a sports reporter for his Ocean City High School newspaper; four years later, as sports editor of the University of Alabama's Crimson-White, he began to employ devices more common in fiction, such as establishing a "scene" with minute details-a technique that would later make him famous.
Later, as a sports reporter for the
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