Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins

Semi-Tough by Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins is a comic genius. -- Don Imus

Made into a hilarious and timeless film starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh, and recently named number seven on Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time, Semi-Tough is Dan Jenkins's masterpiece and considered by many to be the funniest sports book ever written.

The novel follows the outsize adventures of Billy Clyde Puckett, star halfback for the New York Giants, whose team has come to Los Angeles for an epic duel with the despised dog-ass Jets in the Super Bowl. But Billy Clyde is faced with a dual challenge: not only must he try to run over a bunch of malevolents incarnate, but he has also been commissioned by a New York book publisher to keep a journal of the events leading up to, including, and following the game.

Infused with Dan Jenkins's characteristic joie de vivre and replete with cigarettes, whiskey, and wild women, Semi-Tough is an uproarious romp through a lost era of professional sports that will have any armchair quarterback falling out of his or her recliner in hysterics on a semi-regular basis.

DAN JENKINS was a best-selling novelist and award-winning sportswriter whose career spanned seven decades. He published twenty-five books, thirteen novels and twelve nonfiction pieces. Jenkins became widely renowned for his writings in Sports Illustrated over a twenty-five-year period, his stints as a sports columnist for Playboy, and his essays, features, and tweets for Golf Digest after fifteen years of writing for newspapers in Fort Worth and Dallas.

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ISBN 13	9781560258599
ISBN 10	1560258594
Title	Semi-Tough
Author	Dan Jenkins
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Thunder's Mouth Press
Year published	2006-08-01
Number of pages	318
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