Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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Give me the stenographers. Diary of a direct witness of Carlo Coscia pangram Books, Torino 2010 Journalist de La Stampa of Turin for more than thirty years, Carlo Coscia traces in Give me the stenographers the main stages of his career. Welcomed in the upper room of John Arpino, sports becomes a left and follow the most important sporting events in the world, from the mid-seventies to 2005. The author gives us in the course of seven chapters set in the four corners of the world never rhetorical images of samples as Falcao, Tomb, Agassi, Platini, Deborah Compagnoni, Tyson and many others, also framed from a human perspective. The makings of a reporter leaves often marked by all'amarcord autobiographical space effusions: Coscia told us the facts as if they themselves reliving that moment with clarity and light irony, move up in memory and emotion microscopic details of the discovery. The reader should not expect, however, a story made up only of sport. The Memoirs of Carlo Coscia also portray walks of dissidents on the roofs of Buenos Aires oppressed by the generals, and along the streets of Prague in an uproar in '77, the long conversations in a cafe in San Francisco with Joe Rosenthal the Pulitzer Prize - that immortalized American soldiers who were planting their flag on Iwo Jima - and a succession of faces, stories and anecdotes reconstructed in minute detail. Overall - and it is clear even the title - is the central attraction in a precise way of understanding the journalism in the middle between the mission and pleasure, the envoy did not always an easy life in these pages, dense and sometimes hilarious. When the newspaper was still with the lead and dictate an article to the phone becomes a kind of martyrdom, the journalist of yesteryear found himself alone against the whims of the director, the favorable time zone and travel the clocks. carlo thigh - Born in Alexandria, lives in Costigliole d'Asti, between Langa and Monferrato. Has followed for 30 years as a correspondent de "La Stampa" the most important sporting events, including 12 summer and winter Olympics and 13 World Championships (4 Cup). He wrote about skiing, tennis, soccer, boxing, golf, athletics and engines, as well as costume and film. He signed with Stefano Semeraro two books: Stories of sports 2005 (ed. Absolutely Free, 2006) and Dindo Capello : the art of winning (ed. Pendragon, 2009). The book is published by pangram Books, and is also available on ibs.it unilibro.it [250 pp. € 15] For info and reservations: pangram - via San Francesco da Paola, 10 bis - 10123 TORINO tel. 011 53 61 178 info@pangramma.it www.pangramma.it

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