by Various (Author), Nick Hornby (Editor)
Roddy Doyle's account of the Republic of Ireland's triumphant journey through Italia '90 is just one of the many first-class pieces in this anthology of original football writing. Contributors include: Roddy Doyle, Harry Pearson, Harry Ritchie, Ed Horton, Olly Wicken, D.J. Taylor, Huw Richards, Nick Hornby, Chris Pierson, Matt Nation, Graham Brack, Don Watson and Giles Smith. 'A new kind of football writing developed - passionate, disrespectful, self-mocking, yet steeped in personal bias. In book form, young writers such as Nick Hornby and Pete Davies became to the New Football Writing what Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson had been to the New Journalism' Terence Blacker, Sunday Times
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: 2
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 0753814412
ISBN 13: 9780753814413
Book Overview: Compiled by Nick Hornby, author of the bestselling Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About a Boy Published in association with top British football fanzine When Saturday Comes The high-profile contributors include Roddy Doyle, Harry Ritchie and Giles Smith A classic collection of football writing - now reissued with a brand new cover 'The best pieces in this collection have a real whiff of the obsessional about them...there is much humour here, much of the deadpan and the rapturous' Time Out 'An original and engaging anthology of football writing' Esquire 'Fascinatingly varied...a wonderfully readable collection' Daily Mirror.
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