The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood - Couverture souple

Leavy, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060883537 ISBN 13 : 9780060883539

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

The Last Boy Drawing on more than 500 interviews with friends and family, teammates, and opponents, Leavy delivers the definitive account of Mantle's life, mining the mythology of The Mick for the true story of a luminous and illustrious talent with a damaged soul.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“The Last Boy is something new in the history of the histories of the Mick. It is hard fact, reported by someone greatly skilled at that craft...and presented so that the reader and not the author draws nearly all the conclusions.” (Keith Olberman, The New York Times Book Review)

“Every kid growing up in New York in the ‘50s wanted to be Mickey Mantle, including me.... Jane Leavy has captured the hold he had on all of us in this gripping biography.” (Joe Torre, bestselling author and former manager of the New York Yankees)

“Leavy shows Mantle at his unfathomable worst and unrecognized best. For even the most ardent Mantleologist, The Last Boy, is an education.” (Time magazine)

“This is one of the best sports biographies I have ever read. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, it reveals with stunning insight both the talents and the demons that drove Mickey Mantle, bringing him to life as never before.” (Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Team of Rivals)

“Do not walk―sprint―to the bookstore to get a copy of The Last Boy.” (Boston Globe)

“In sharp detail and graceful style, Leavy cuts through the myth and treats us to a rarely known Mantle: more flawed, more human and more likeable. A terrific read.” (Tom Verducci, Co-author of the #1 bestseller The Yankee Years)

“The only thing about this book that is better than Jane Leavy’s vivid prose is her astonishing reporting. To my knowledge, no one has ever investigated the life of an American athlete with Leavy’s rigor and thoroughness.” (Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition and Nine Innings)

“The Last Boy is stunning. Jane Leavy captures the beautiful, imperfect Mickey Mantle with equal measures of depth and empathy. She finds the buried answers to the riddle of what drove and haunted the Mick.” (David Maraniss, author of Clemente and Lombardi: When Pride Still Mattered)

“Definitive.” (Sports Illustrated)

“Engrossing.... The Last Boy is a fresh, thorough examination of Mickey Mantle’s life.” (New York Newsday)

Quatrième de couverture :

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Time Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year

Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, returns with a biography of an American original: number 7, Mickey Mantle. Meticulously reported and elegantly written, The Last Boy is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from the author’s weekend with the Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983 after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences from friends and family. It is the story of a boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League’s Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth’s home run crown in the summer of 1961—a boy who would never grow up. The Last Boy is an uncommon biography, with literary overtones—not only a portrait of an icon but also an investigation of memory itself.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0060883537
• ISBN 13: 9780060883539
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512