Football in Sun and Shadow: An Emotional History Of World Cup Football (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Synopsis
'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' When Saturday Comes'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' New Yorker
Copyright:
2003

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780241355367
Related ISBNs:
9780241355350
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Penguin Books Ltd
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Sports, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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