Ali, Pelé, Lillee and Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies - Couverture souple

Viner, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1416522131 ISBN 13 : 9781416522133

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2010

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

‘As you might surmise from the title, Ali, Pelé, Lillee and Me is not short of compelling characters . . . The author is constantly making [connections] with his sporting heroes: sometimes direct, sometimes by proxy, always with an anecdote worth hearing. This is an unusual sports book in that it is not dedicated to one particular pastime or descriptive of one particular individual . . . [Viner’s] odyssey through the Seventies, which threatens at first to descend into rosy-spectacled reminiscence, turns instead into a beautifully structured journey through a sporting life, constantly enlivened with unexpected detours . . . Viner digresses, [but] the Tristram Shandy of sports writing is always sufficiently in control of his material to haul a chapter back on course just when it is heading for delightful irrelevance. One of the most appealing elements is the way that Viner allows others to say the good stuff . . . Viner doesn’t shoehorn gags into his text, and most of the jokes issue from the mouths of others. But he has a keen eye and a sharp ear, and skewers contemporary vanities with the same accuracy that he applies to the excruciating lessons of childhood. This book is difficult to classify, but very easy to enjoy’
Andrew Baker, Daily Telegraph
'Hilarious' INDEPENDENT
‘Through the prism of nostalgia, Viner views the Seventies as a golden age in the history of sport. In this highly affectionate memoir, he recalls how his schooldays were dominated by thoughts of cricketing legends including Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson, golfing geniuses such as Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson, and titanic boxing clashes, most memorably the Rumble In the Jungle in Zaire in 1974, where Muhammad Ali seized the world crown from George Foreman...What makes Viner’s book so special is that, thanks to his job as one of Britain’s leading sports writers, he went on to meet many of his heroes, and the tales of these encounters are wonderfully readable’
Mail on Sunday

Quatrième de couverture :

'A marvellous book. Warm, moving and very funny. It's just like watching Brazil'
James Nesbitt
Brian Viner's formative years as a sports nut coincided with what he argues was the best sporting decade of all time. The 1970s gave us the greatest football team in the history of the game. Muhammad Ali in his pomp. Red Rum. Gareth Edwards and rugby union's finest try. And, of course, Kevin Keegan falling off his bike on Superstars. When the decade ended, Viner was in his last year as a teenager. If he wasn't watching or playing sport during the ten years before that, then he was either at school or asleep. Or both, if it was one of Mr Ashworth's physics lessons.
Hilarious and highly engaging, Viner's memoir also sheds light on some of his boyhood heroes through his adult encounters with them as a sports journalist, and is a must-read for sports fans of all ages.
'Affectionate and highly amusing . . . There are some wonderful stories, told with a gentle sense of humour and a delightful turn of phrase, which will strike a chord with anyone who has grown up with a passion for sport'
Paul Newman, Independent
'The Tristram Shandy of sports writing . . . Viner skewers contemporary vanities with the same accuracy that he applies to the excruciating lessons of childhood. This book is difficult to classify, but very easy to enjoy'
Andrew Baker, Daily Telegraph
'What makes Viner's book so special is that, thanks to his job as one of Britain's leading sports writers, he went on to meet many of his heroes, and the tales of these encounters are wonderfully readable'
Leo McKinstry, Mail on Sunday
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1416522131
• ISBN 13: 9781416522133
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304