The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner - Brossura

Mangan, Patrick

 
9780994507327: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner
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ISBN 10: 0994507321 ISBN 13: 9780994507327
Casa editrice: Patrick Mangan, 2018

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‘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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Editore
Patrick Mangan
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0994507321
ISBN 13 
9780994507327
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
290
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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