Big Girl in the Middle - Softcover

Reece, Gabrielle; Karbo, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0609801937 ISBN 13: 9780609801932

Publisher: Three Rivers Pr, 1998

Synopsis

In an autobiography structured around the highlights of the volleyball season, the professional beach volleyball player, magazine covergirl, and Nike spokeswoman traces her life and the rewards and pitfalls of being a female athlete. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

Karen Karbo is the author of two novels, Trespassers Welcome Here and The Diamond Lane. Her nonfiction essays have appeared in Esquire, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Her story on America3, the all-women's America's Cup Team, originally published in Outside magazine, appeared in The Best American Sports Writing of 1996. She lives in Portland, Oregon

From the Inside Flap

rstars in sports are women, and pro beach volleyball player Gabrielle Reece is the hottest of them all. At six-foot-three, 170 pounds, Gabby Reece is at once beautiful and brutish, feminine and rowdy, accessible and intimidating--a woman who is exploding female stereotypes and redefining our image of the female athlete.

"A young girl doesn't get many chances to exercise the character muscle via sports, whereas for young boys, it's part of their everyday lives. For girls, it's especially good for them to be forced to work as a team with other girls, to work together under every possible condition--winning, losing, tired, grumpy, happy. It forces them to deal with unpleasant, ungracious emotions and get over it. It forces girls to rely on each other. It gives them confidence in other girls, which ultimately gives them confidence in themselves."

"Everything a woman does has an emotional component. Paying attention to my emotional side without surrendering to it is

Edition details

• Publisher: Three Rivers Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0609801937
• ISBN 13: 9780609801932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256