An edition of Take time for paradise (2011)

Take time for paradise

Americans and their games

Take time for paradise
A. Bartlett Giamatti, A. Bartl ...
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An edition of Take time for paradise (2011)

Take time for paradise

Americans and their games

"A philosophical musing on sports and play, this wholly inspiring and utterly charming reissue of Bart Giamatti's long-out-of-print final book, Take Time for Paradise, puts baseball in the context of American life and leisure. Giamatti begins with the conviction that our use of free time tells us something about who we are. He explores the concepts of leisure, American-style. And in baseball, the quintessential American game, he finds its ultimate expression. "Sports and leisure are our reiteration of the hunger for paradise for freedom untrammeled." Filled with pithy truths about such resonant subjects as ritual, self-betterment, faith, home, and community, Take Time for Paradise gives us much more than just baseball. These final, eloquent thoughts of "the philosopher king of baseball" (Seattle Weekly) are a joyful, reverent celebration of the sport Giamatti loved and the country that created it"--

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Bloomsbury USA
Language
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Take time for paradise: Americans and their games
2011, Bloomsbury USA
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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Summit Books, c1989.

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/83
Library of Congress
GV706.5 .G53 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25042634M
ISBN 10
1608192245
ISBN 13
9781608192243
LCCN
2010048207

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