Summary
The second in the ground-breaking trilogy which reveals the dark underbelly of 1990s Britain - the football, the camaraderie, the violence.
Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain’s other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year’s Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. In this lager-soaked league, the most tha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099739517 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099739518 |
| Author: | John King |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 July 1998 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
| Series: | The Football Factory Trilogy |
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Critics Review
King loads his characters up with enough interior life, but it’s the raw energy of their interactions - the beano to Blackpool, the punch-ups, the casual fucks, the family skeletons and the unburied fantasies - that make this excellent book run – Steve Grant * Time Out *
Sexy, dirty, violent, sad, funny: in fact it has just about everything you could want from a book on contemporary working-class life in London – Stephen Chamberlain * Big Issue *
An odyssey into southern English blue-collar manners as King deconstructs the stereotype of Essex Man and his outer London contemporaries and finds rather more complex attitudes towards gender and class than the tabloid image suggests – Teddy Jamieson * The List *
The realism and political edge echoes Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff – John Williams * GQ *
About The Author
John King
John King is the author of nine novels: The Football Factory, Headhunters, England Away, Human Punk, White Trash, The Prison House, Skinheads, The Liberal Politics Of Adolf Hitler, and Slaughterhouse Prayer. The Football Factory has been turned into a high-profile film and his books have been widely translated abroad. He has also written short stories and non-fiction for a number of publications over the years. He edits the fiction fanzine Verbal and lives in London.
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