How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup
$28.91
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2016
Summary
How England’s most obscure local team, who felt lucky when their home pitch was above water-level, went all the way to Wembley
‘But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.’ - J.L. Carr
Very strange and extremely funny, this uncategorizable novel is a surreal fantasy set, vaguely, in the early 1970s, during one highly memorable football season. Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, in their new all-buttercup-yellow stripe, start it by ravaging…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241252345 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241252342 |
| Author: | J.L. Carr |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2016 |
| Weight: | 108g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
It’s a comic story about sportsmanship and underdogs; it’s also a slightly wistful portrait of village life and provincial decency, as well as a beautifully written hymn to doggedness and eccentricity. This gently humorous novella is the anti-Ronaldo. – Robbie Millen * The Times *
An extraordinary performance, simultaneously one of the greatest football novels ever written and a penetrating report card from a world where fiction rarely lingers, at once a comic masterpiece and a study in national temperament that the doughtiest social historian would struggle to match. – DJ Taylor * Guardian *
J.L. Carr
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.
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