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How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A.Cup ('London Magazine' editions) - Hardcover

J. L. Carr

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9780904388022: How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A.Cup ('London Magazine' editions)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0904388026 ISBN 13: 9780904388022
Publisher: London Magazine Editions, 1975

Synopsis

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A.Cup

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About the Author

James Lloyd Carr, born 1912, attended the village school at Carlton Miniott in the North Riding and Castleford Secondary School. He died in Northamptonshire in 1994. His novel A Month in the Country won the Guardian Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a memorable film.

Review

It's a comic story about sportsmanship and underdogs; it's also a slightly wistful portrait of village life and provincial decency, as well as a beautifully written hymn to doggedness and eccentricity. This gently humorous novella is the anti-Ronaldo. -- Robbie Millen * The Times * An extraordinary performance, simultaneously one of the greatest football novels ever written and a penetrating report card from a world where fiction rarely lingers, at once a comic masterpiece and a study in national temperament that the doughtiest social historian would struggle to match. -- DJ Taylor * Guardian *

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Publisher
London Magazine Editions
Publication date
1975
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0904388026
ISBN 13 
9780904388022
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
1
Rating
  • 3.85 out of 5 stars
    1,166 ratings by Goodreads