# Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-charyn/sizzling-chops-and-devilish-spins/9781568582429

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-charyn/sizzling-chops-and-devilish-spins/9781568582429.json

![Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins](https://quivercdn.com/covers/da-capo-press/jerome-charyn/sizzling-chops-and-devilish-spins_978-15-6858-242-9.png?v=2026-05-13%2011%3A17%3A06)

- Book: [Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-charyn/sizzling-chops-and-devilish-spins) ([Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-charyn/sizzling-chops-and-devilish-spins.md))
- Authors: [Jerome Charyn](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerome-charyn)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-15-6858-242-9
- Published: 2002-09-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Ping-pong, played around the world by over 250 million people, cast a hypnotic spell on Jerome Charyn's childhood imagination. Sizzling Chops and Devilish Spins portrays the great pongistes and includes photos and interviews with table tennis legends Marty " The Needle" Reisman and Dick Miles. From ping-pong detente in China to the underground bars of New York City, Charyn details the sport's history while capturing the intellect, excitement, and anarchic spirit of ping-pong's golden age. This offbeat and entertaining chronicle of one of the world's quirkier Olympic sports is presented in a completely redesigned trade paper edition. " Table tennis can now add to its two certified American superstar players a certified American superstar chronicler , The New York Times " Both an informed history and an intimate memoir.... [Charyn's] book is a giddy delight and a sweet elegy." , The Los Angeles Times Book Review