The Cost of These Dreams
Sports Stories and Other Serious Business
By: Wright Thompson
Paperback | 4 January 2019
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There is only one Wright Thompson. He is, as they say, famous if you know who he is: his work includes the most read articles in the history of ESPN (and it's not even close) and has been anthologised in the Best American Sports Writing series ten times, and he counts John Grisham and Richard Ford among his ardent admirers. But to say his pieces are about sports, while true as far as it goes, is like saying Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is a book about a cattle drive.
Wright Thompson figures people out. He jimmies the lock to the furnaces inside the people he profiles and does an analysis of the fuel that fires their ambition. Whether it be Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods or Pat Riley or Lionel Messi, he strips away the self-serving myths and fantasies to reveal his characters in full.
There are fascinating common denominators: it may not be the case that every single great performer or coach had a complex relationship with his father, but it can sure seem that way. And there is much marvellous local knowledge: about specific sports, and times and places, and people. Ludicrously entertaining and often powerfully moving, The Cost of These Dreams is an ode to the reporter's art, and a celebration of true greatness and the high price that it exacts.
About the Author
Wright Thompson is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi with his wife, Sonia, and his daughter, Wallace. Prior to joining ESPN in 2006, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Kansas City and New Orleans. He is a Montana landowner, an Ole Miss Rebels football fan, and a devoted son of his birthplace, the Mississippi Delta, because of the gothic landscape and its hard, beautiful music. He loves wheated bourbons, his family's annual Thanksgiving, and ordering a two piece dark spicy from a certain holy fast food chicken chain.
The recipient of numerous awards for journalism, Thompson is most proud of the Ernie Pyle Award and the Dan Jenkins Medal. He also knows that you know that he wrote this himself.
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ISBN: 9781788701969
ISBN-10: 1788701968
Published: 4th January 2019
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 400
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Bonnier
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 27.7 x 17.1 x 6.2
Weight (kg): 0.37
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