Game of Throw-ins - Brossura

O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844883450 ISBN 13: 9781844883455

Casa editrice: Penguin Ireland, 2016

Riassunto

I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call everyday life.

My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator, my daughter was in love with a boy who looked like Justin Bieber and my old dear was about to walk up the aisle with a 92-year-old billionaire who thought it was still 1936.

I was, like, staring down the barrel of middle age with the contentment of knowing that I was the greatest Irish rugby player who no one in Ireland had ever actually heard of. Until a chance conversation with an old Jesuit missionary made me realize that it wasn't enough.

I was guided, as if by GPS, to a muddy field in - let's be honest - Ballybrack. And there I finally discovered my destiny - to keep a struggling Seapoint team in Division 2B of the All Ireland League.

Or die trying.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Game of Throw-Ins is the sixteenth novel in Paul Howard's 'Ross O'Carroll-Kelly' series. Ross books - annual No 1 bestsellers - have sold over a million copies, are annually nominated for the Popular Fiction prize at the Irish Book Awards - where they have won the prize an unprecedented three times - and are also critically acclaimed as satirical masterpieces. Paul's Ross column in the Irish Times Magazine is one of the most viewed items on its website. He also writes for the hit TV series, Irish Pictorial Weekly, and is a highly respected and liked commentator and writer.

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I was a rugby player with a great future behind me. A 35-year-old father-of-five with an expanding waistline, who was trying to survive the bloody battlefield we call life.

My son was locked in a violent turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator, my daughter was in love with a boy who looked like Justin Bieber and my old dear was about to walk up the aisle with a 92-year-old billionaire who thought it was still 1936.

I was, like, staring down the barrel of middle age with the contentment of knowing that I was the greatest Irish rugby player who no one in Ireland had ever actually heard of. Until a chance conversation with an old Jesuit missionary made me realize that it wasn't enough.

I was guided, as if by GPS, to a muddy field in - let's be honest - Ballybrack. And there I finally discovered my destiny - to keep a struggling Seapoint team in Division 2B of the All Ireland League.

Or die trying.

Praise for Ross O'Carroll-Kelly:

'[The] dialogue sings ... as send-up, it never gets old' Irish Times

'Satirical masterpieces' Irish Daily Star

'Still has the roight stuff' Irish Examiner

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Ireland
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844883450
• ISBN 13: 9781844883455
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile