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George, Being George (George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored, and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals--and a Few Unappreciative Observers).(Brief article)(Book review)
No wonder Philip Roth, in his novel "Exit Ghost," made an elegiac set-piece of the death, at seventy-six, in 2003, of George Plimpton--the aristocratic, Zelig-like, heron-resembling founder and editor of the Paris Review, fearless amateur jock, inexhaustible after-dinner speaker, and New York treasure. This book resembles "Edie" in its oral-bio form. Its sometimes pitiless honesty (the two wives, though loving, are especially blunt) balances the ...
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