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Synopsis
It is Spring 2002 in the Black Country, with local elections looming. A mosque is being built on the site where iconic steelworks once dominated the town. "The Tipton Three" are in Guantanamo where the whites-only British National Party expect to win new seats on the council. Rob, once a professional soccer player like his famous father, is now a tracksuited teaching assistant, and a schoolboy whom he is teaching to read is stabbed in a gang attack. Within this cauldron, two local soccer teams, split along racial lines, play a Sunday league decider, billed by the press as "a match to spark race war." While England plays Argentina for the World Cup, the characters gather—Rob, Glenn, Jim, Tom, and Stacey behind the bar—to see what hope and solidarity they still share.
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About the Author
Anthony Cartwright's debut The Afterglow won a Betty Trask Award and was short-listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
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"A great book about football . . . captures just what it’s like to be engaged in the complex plot of a game, whether as fan or a player. If you read a better complement to the game this year you’ll be lucky." When Saturday Comes
"An impressive novel, glimpsed through the prism of a pair of football matches." D. J. Taylor, author, Kept, for the Guardian
"This slice-of-life novel is ambitiously structured. A welcome and timely take on England now, from a talented and thoughtful writer." Independent
"This is what fiction should be and what readers want it to be: passionately engaged. The ambition and achievement shine forth from every sentence." David Peace, author, Tokyo Year Zero
"A writer with a wonderful ear for dialect and an unblinking sense of Britain as it is today. Anthony Cartwright's patient, attentive storytelling shines a glowing light on areas of our common experience." Jonathan Coe, author, The Rotters' Club
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- PublisherTindal st Pr Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1906994080
- ISBN 13 9781906994082
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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