2004
First Published
3.19
Average Rating
208
Number of Pages
A sportswriter and author of Black Planet examines the way in which basketball players have become public heroes, focusing on such individuals as Ichiro Suzuki, Latrell Sprewell, and Hideki Matsui and exploring such topics as athlete tattoos, sports movie resurrection myths, and the recent influx of European players. 15,000 first printing.
Avg Rating
3.19
Number of Ratings
32
5 STARS
9%
4 STARS
19%
3 STARS
56%
2 STARS
13%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
David Shields
Author · 20 books
David Shields is the author of fourteen books, including Reality Hunger (Knopf, 2010), which was named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications. GQ called it "the most provocative, brain-rewiring book of 2010"; the New York Times called it "a mind-bending manifesto." His previous book, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (Knopf, 2008), was a New York Times bestseller. His other books include Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, winner of the PEN/Revson Award; and Dead Languages: A Novel, winner of the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, Believer, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader; he's written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer. His work has been translated into fifteen languages.
