How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup - J L Carr

How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup

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Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2016
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-25234-5 (ISBN)
11,20 inkl. MwSt
Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, in their new all-buttercup-yellow stripe, start it by ravaging the Fenland League and end it with a phenomenal nail-biter against Glasgow Rangers.
'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor' DJ Taylor

'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. Carr

In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are England's most obscure team. This uncategorizable, surreal and extremely funny novel is the story of how they start the season by ravaging the Fenland League and end it by going all the way to Wembley.

Told through unreliable recollection, florid local newspaper coverage and bizarre committee minutes, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is both entertaining and moving. There will never be players again like Alex Slingsby, Sid 'the Shooting Star' Swift and the immortal milkman-turned-goalkeeper, Monkey Tonks.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 198 mm
Gewicht 112 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-241-25234-2 / 0241252342
ISBN-13 978-0-241-25234-5 / 9780241252345
Zustand Neuware
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