ENGLISH

Football in Sun and Shadow

By Fried , Eduardo , Mark;Galeano

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2018
ISBN
9780241355367, 9780241355350, 0241355354
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2290123 bytes)
Series
Penguin modern classics
Pages
207 pages ; 20 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Soccer;Soccer--History;Soccer--Social aspects;Hist

Description

'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

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