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This Is What We Are - Couverture souple

Fenwick, Jack

 
9781938135132: This Is What We Are
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 193813513X ISBN 13 : 9781938135132
Editeur : Jack Fenwick an Imprint of Telemachus Press, 2012

Synopsis

For rugby or football fans, "This is what we are" catapults you into experiencing the unaskable: what happens to you when your club suddenly dies? Meet Jack. Jack was born in Trinidad and lives in Bologna, Italy, which he has made his home. But his spiritual home is just up the Po Valley in Parma, of all places, in a rugby stadium. A season ago, that would have read "the home of his rugby team". But market forces mean Jack's club - Rugby Parma - can no longer afford to field a professional team in its name. It's joined forces with another club to create a new team with a different name, different colours and different faces. Jack had lived and breathed Parma Rugby for the best years of his life. His rugby friends had lived every Saturday or Sunday at the stadium for longer than they could remember. Some had been to Parma matches in the womb. It was what had set their blood coursing for a lifetime. And now it was all over. Except there was this Frankenstein baby tugging at their heels, clamouring for the place in their hearts which still had the contours of their old team, a space that couldn't be filled. This compact book of short, powerful, thought-provoking episodes - each like the crucial moments in a match - traces the heartbeat of Parma's recent glories into the season of mourning when Jack and his Rugby Parma friends had to try and discover who they were again. But it's also much more than that, with broader reflections on rugby and indeed football around Europe and even the States. If you're the girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband, son, daughter or close friend of one of those splendid lunatics who seems to live only for their team, this book will give you a unique insight into what makes their hearts beat and their passions live. Into what they are.

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Éditeur
Jack Fenwick an Imprint of Telemachus Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
193813513X
ISBN 13 
9781938135132
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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