Dan Jenkins, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-49723-7
Unforgettable for his howlingly funny sendup of pro football in Semi-Tough
and his equally droll spoof of the PGA Tour Dead Solid Perfect, columnist Jenkins (Golf Digest) is as irreverent and hip a sports satirist as ever tarred and feathered a...
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Dan Jenkins, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-385-51910-6
In Jenkins's outrageous sports satire (after Slim and None
), middle-aged sportswriter Jack Brannon is sick of writing about Tiger Woods and the boring testosterone-charged PGA tour. So the swaggering Texan decides to check out the ladies of...
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Dan Jenkins, Author Doubleday Books $22 (247p) ISBN 978-0-385-47425-2
Jenkins ( Semi-Tough ) has been a golf writer for four decades, and his addiction to the sport is palpable in this collection of articles from Golf Digest and Sports Illustrated , with a few additions. His mania is best expressed in his final piece,
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Dan Jenkins, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-69021-2
In his 11th book, Jenkins ( Semi-Tough ) collects his magazine articles, syndicated columns and a few original essays in a lively anthology. Though his humor is anything but subtle, it is often on target--as when Jenkins escorts the reader to one of
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Dan Jenkins, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-60206-2
The central character in this energetic tale set in the Depression era is a brainy, resourceful beauty who ``has it all,'' including, at the start of the story, a brand-new husband and her father's small-town Texas newspaper to run. But Betsy...
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Dan Jenkins, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-47000-1
In this continuing saga of former sportswriter Jenkins's sardonic alter ego and narrator, Billy Clyde Puckett (Semi-Tough, etc.), the former footballer and gadabout sports junkie slips from redneck obstreperousness to fundamentally racist and...
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Dan Jenkins, Author, Walter Iooss, Jr., Illustrator, Walter Iooss, Jr., Photographer ABRAMS $29.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-8109-0938-0
Readers of Sports Illustrated are familiar with Iooss's work, the best of which from the last two decades is reproduced here with notable clarity. Here are pre-teen boys playing during school recess and in the Pop Warner League, college athletes and
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