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An Outside Chance: Classic and New Essays on Sport Hardback - 1990

by Thomas McGuane; Introduction by Geoffrey Wolff

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  • Title An Outside Chance: Classic and New Essays on Sport
  • Author Thomas McGuane; Introduction by Geoffrey Wolff
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 294
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
  • Publication date 1990
  • ISBN 9780395500842 / 0395500842
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.83 x 1.1 in (21.72 x 14.81 x 2.79 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Sports stories, Authors, American - 20th century - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90038562
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796
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