A Book of Two Halves: Football Short Stories

Nicholas Royle (ED.)

ISBN 10: 0753812509 / ISBN 13: 9780753812501

Published by Phoenix, London, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Book of Two Halves: Football Short Stories
• Publisher: Phoenix, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753812509
• ISBN 13: 9780753812501
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sport

About this title

Synopsis

This is a collection of 23 football stories, including stories by Irvine Welsh, Iain Sinclair, Glyn Maxwell, Geoff Nicholson, Kim Newman, and Liz Jensen. It also includes poems about football by John Hegley. The plots involve a riotous Hibernian Saturday night and a hazardous visit to White Hart Lane.

Review

"'A Book of Two Halves stands out as one of the most incisive and witty books on the game to come out in the last few years...a collection of quality tales about life's highs and lows inspired by the game we love' 90 Minutes; 'Reading A Book of Two Halves is like going to watch Newcastle when you're used to Northampton Town. The boy Royle done good' Andrew Shields, Time Out; 'Praise be, through its sheer versatility of attack, A Book of Two Halves succeeds in challenging the wearisome New Lad orthodoxy of so much current soccer discourse' NME"