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Follows the author, who was originally just a curious reporter and now a Scrabble fiend, as he becomes an expert Scrabble player and delves into the realm of Scrabble culture, where he encounters a vitamin-popping standup comic and the three-time champion who plays by Zen principles, and realizes that Scrabble is more than just a game on many different levels. Reprint.
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"An engrossing, inside look at the strange and rareified world of competitive Scrabble. It's a pleasure to experience vicariously a level of play that I'll never achieve!" —Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor and puzzle master of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday
L'autore:
"Fatsis . . . writes with affectionate zeal about the game and the fraternity of brilliant, lonely, and otherwise dysfunctional oddballs it attracts." —The New York Times
"Word Freak has an impassioned subtitle, and it lives up to every word." —People
"Fatsis is a wonderful writer." —The New York Times Book Review
"A can't-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage." —Los Angeles Times
"Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing." —The Atlantic Monthly
"While a book about Scrabble sounds as appealing as a work on the beauties of watching paint dry, Fatsis brings drama and suspense to the game....His crisp reporting is enough to make the reader hyperventilate." —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Word Freak is a fascinating look into a thriving, cultish world that's best admired from an armchair." —The Christian Science Monitor
"Fatsis's marvelously absorbing excursion into the world of Scrabble...is a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect.... Fatsis clearly doesn't regard Scrabble as just 'a board game,' and he tells us its history in loving detail." —San Jose Mercury News
Stefan Fatsis is the bestselling author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players and Wild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland. He reported on sports for more than a decade for The Wall Street Journal and talks about sports every week on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. His work also has appeared on the websites Slate and Deadspin. Stefan lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Melissa Block, and their daughter, Chloe.
Stefan Fatsis is the bestselling author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players andWild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland. He reported on sports for more than a decade forThe Wall Street Journal and talks about sports every week on National Public Radio'sAll Things Considered. His work also has appeared on the websites Slate and Deadspin. Stefan lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Melissa Block, and their daughter, Chloe.
Stefan Fatsis is the bestselling author of Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players andWild and Outside: How a Renegade Minor League Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland. He reported on sports for more than a decade forThe Wall Street Journal and talks about sports every week on National Public Radio'sAll Things Considered. His work also has appeared on the websites Slate and Deadspin. Stefan lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Melissa Block, and their daughter, Chloe.
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- EditorePenguin Group USA
- Data di pubblicazione2002
- ISBN 10 0142002267
- ISBN 13 9780142002261
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine416
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