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The Someone You're Not: : True Stories of Sports, Celebrity, Politics & Pornography

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The Someone You're Not: : True Stories of Sports, Celebrity, Politics & Pornography

Bestselling author Mike Sagerâ‚¬s fourth collection, The Someone Youâ‚¬re Not, showcases Sagerâ‚¬s deftly-written journalism at its best and most mature, a riveting marriage of crime reportage and you-are-there literary anthropology.

The bookâ‚¬s centerpiece examines the rise and fall of football RoboQuarterback Todd Marinovichâ‚¬"a previously unpublished, thirty-plus thousand word â‚¬Å“nonvellaâ‚¬Â version of his ASME-award winning Esquire story, the inspiration for ESPNâ‚¬s acclaimed documentary. Other true stories include up-close and personal visits with super-celebrity Paris Hilton, South Asian Republican hopeful Gov. Piyush â‚¬Å“Bobbyâ‚¬Â Jindal, Ultimate Fighting Championship impresario Dana White, and coaching phenom Pete Carroll.

Plus: A man who spent twenty-nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. A Muslim immigrant who worked to save the life of the white supremacist who tried to kill him. The best-dressed man in America. An ugly guy in a town that worships beauty. A farm in the mountains where wounded marine veterans are taking care of their own. And â‚¬Å“The Porn Identity,â‚¬Â where a divorced dad takes to the road to find former starlets and to rediscover his mojo.

â‚¬Å“Mike Sager writes with uncommon grace and, always, with respect for those who
give him their time. His stories cut to the bone of our common humanity.â‚¬Â
--Paul Hendrickson, author, Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi, on The
Someone Youâ‚¬re Not.

"You know those engrossing books that keep you up all night? Don't pick this one up
if you have somewhere to be the next morning."
--E Online.com on Scary Monsters and Super Freaks

â‚¬Å“Like his journalistic precursors Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Sager writes
frenetic, off-kilter pop-sociological profiles of Americans in all their vulgarity and
vitality. He writes with flair, but only in the service of an omnivorous curiosity. He defies
expectations in pieces that lesser writers would play for satire or sensationalismâ‚¬Â¦ a
Whitmanesque ode to teeming humanityâ‚¬s mystical unity.â‚¬Â
--The New York Times Book Review on Revenge of the Donut Boys

â‚¬Å“I can recognize the truth in these storiesâ‚¬"tales about the darkest possible side of
wretched humanity.â‚¬Â
--Hunter S. Thompson, author, on Scary Monsters and Super Freaks.

"Sager plays Virgil in the modern American inferno...Compelling and stylish
magazine journalism, rich in novelistic detail."
--Kirkus Reviews, on Revenge of the Donut Boys

"Mike Sager is the beat poet of American journalism, that rare reporter who can make literature out of shabby reality. Equal parts reporter, ethnographer, stylist and cultural critic, Sager has for 20 years carried the tradition of Tom Wolfe on his broad shoulders, chronicling the American scene and psyche. Nobody does it sharper, smarter,or with more style."
--Walt Harrington, dean emeritus, College of Media, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Country USA
Manufacturer The Sager Group LLC
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-09-14
Format Kindle eBook

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