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Living out of Bounds - The Male Athlete's Everyday Life (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,690
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Living out of Bounds - The Male Athlete's Everyday Life (Hardcover): Steven J Overman

Living out of Bounds - The Male Athlete's Everyday Life (Hardcover)

Steven J Overman

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Despite some enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. Living out of Bounds provides answers to persistent questions about what it's really like to be an athlete and discusses the filtered image of the athlete that emerges through books and other media. Overman mines a wide array of sports biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and diaries to construct a representative picture of the athlete's life from the rise of American sport in the late 19th century to the present day. In so doing, he reveals the person behind the sports celebrity, as he or she exists on a daily basis. Individual chapters cover such topics as college athletics, the pressure of celebrity, the difficulty of balancing sports and everyday life, sex and sexuality, race in sports, the obsession with the body, and the difficulties associated with retiring. In the course of the work, a portrait emerges that transcends the individual lives lived. The shared experiences of devoted training, of travel and hotels, and of tension within and beyond the clubhouse or gym, force us to appreciate the often oppressive reality of the sporting life, at the same time that the individual lives lived also provide us with a glimpse of the rewards that make sports so compelling to audiences and athletes across America.

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Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2008
First published: November 2008
Authors: Steven J Overman
Dimensions: 243 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34668-2
Categories: Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure
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LSN: 0-313-34668-2
Barcode: 9780313346682

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