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Soccer
Contributor(s): Toussaint, Jean-Philippe (Author), Whiteside, Shaun (Translator)

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ISBN: 1978804199     ISBN-13: 9781978804197
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Soccer
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- History | World - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2018027713
Age Level: 15-UP
Grade Level: 10-UP
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 7.9" L (0.20 lbs) 100 pages
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Growing up in Belgium, soccer was Jean-Philippe Touissant's life, a passion not shared by his bookish family. Now an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and filmmaker, he reflects upon his lifelong love for the game with an intellectual's keen mind and a sports fan's heart. What, he ponders, has a lifetime of soccer fandom taught him about life and the passage of time itself.

Soccer takes readers on an idiosyncratic journey that delves deep into the author's childhood memories, but also transports us to World Cup matches in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and Brazil. Along the way, it kicks around such provocative questions as: How does soccer fandom both support and transcend nationalism? How are our memories of soccer matches both collective and distinctly personal? And how can a game this beautiful and this ephemeral be adequately captured in words?

Part travelogue, part memoir, and part philosophical essay, Soccer is entirely unique, a thrilling departure from the usual clich s of sports writing. Even readers with little knowledge of the game will be enthralled by Touissant's profound musings and lyrical prose.

 
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