The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner

Patrick Mangan

ISBN 10: 0994507321 / ISBN 13: 9780994507327

Published by Patrick Mangan Mai 2018, 2018

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Neuware - A wonderful book I was helplessly absorbed Bill Bryson In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English immigrant cast helplessly adrift from the mother country.Like Nick Hornby s Fever Pitch set among the gum trees and the dust, this is the tale of a scrawny Pommy kid falling desperately in love with the world game and the Gunners, as well as his unrelenting occasionally unfathomable crusade to convert the pagans of the Aussie outback to his noble cause. Utterly beguiling Geraldine Doogue, Radio National, Australia Exuberant and self-deprecating The Age Dead-set fantastic I think it s the fastest I ve ever read a book Santo Cilauro, co-host of Santo, Sam and Ed s Total Football Originally published as Offsider by Melbourne University Press.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner
• Publisher: Patrick Mangan Mai 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0994507321
• ISBN 13: 9780994507327
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 196W x 130H x 27D millimeters 196 millimeters width by 130 millimeters height by 27 millimeters depth
• Weight: 301 grams

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Synopsis

'A wonderful book - I was helplessly absorbed' - Bill Bryson

In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English immigrant cast helplessly adrift from the mother country.

Like Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch set among the gum trees and the dust, this is the tale of a scrawny Pommy kid falling desperately in love with the world game and the Gunners, as well as his unrelenting - occasionally unfathomable - crusade to convert the pagans of the Aussie outback to his noble cause.

'Utterly beguiling' - Geraldine Doogue, Radio National, Australia

'Exuberant and self-deprecating' - The Age

'Dead-set fantastic - I think it's the fastest I've ever read a book' - Santo Cilauro, co-host of Santo, Sam and Ed's Total Football

Originally published as Offsider by Melbourne University Press