Lost in the lights.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

Kliatt | November 1, 2003| | Copyright

Univ. of Alabama Press. 173p. c2003. 0-8173-1316-8. $18.95. SA

Over the past 30 years, Paul Hemphill has published over four million words as a newspaper columnist and as an author of 14 books. His first success was in sports writing, and it is that abiding interest that has led to present these previously published essays. Hemphill insists in his Prologue "this collection is not a sports book." He recalls that his editor at Sport, the legendary Dick Schaap to whom this book is dedicated. "was always looking for pieces that would dig deeper" and the essays selected ...

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