Boy Wonder (eBook)

Tales from the Sidelines of an Irish Childhood

Dave Hannigan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
256 Seiten
Gill Books (Verlag)
978-0-7171-7891-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A collage of personal memories passed over into family myth, Boy Wonder is a funny and moving account of a childhood spent, like countless others, on pitches, sidelines and stands, struggling to make sense of competition and the outsized role it plays in the lives of men and boys, fathers and sons. From tough lessons on the parish field and the politics of afterschool football to the euphoria of Croke Park and brushes with demigods like Jimmy Barry-Murphy and Roy Keane, Boy Wonderis a poignant comic memoir about family, sport and the rites of passage that shape every childhood. It is one man's story – but a testament to every man's experience.
'If you ever strung a length of washing line across the road to try to replicate the excitement of Wimbledon, played street football while imagining John Motson simpering over your every touch, trotted around an obstacle course slapping your backside during Dublin Horse Show week or tried to emulate Alex Higgins on a four-foot by two-foot snooker table in the tight confines of a suburban kitchen, then Boy Wonder will make you ache with nostalgia for your own childhood.' Paul Howard
'Utterly authentic.'Matt Cooper

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2017
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1984 summer • Behan in the USA: The Rise and Fall of the Most Famous Irishman in New York • Boys • Boy Wonder • Childhood • Cork • Cork Evening Echo • Dave Hannigan • Drama in the Bahamas: Muhammed Ali’s Last Fight • Family • family myth • Fathers • father/son relationship • football pitch • Humour • Irish childhood • Irish Echo in New York • Irish Times • Jimmy Barry Murphy • Memoir • Memories • Nostalgia • Parents • playing sports • Rites of Passage • Role Models • role of family • role of men • Roy Keane • Sons • Sports • sports writer • Suffolk Community College • The Big Fight: Muhammed Ali vs Al ‘Blue’ Lewis and Terence MacSwiney: The Hunger Strike that Rocked an Empire • USA
• ISBN-10: 0-7171-7891-9 / 0717178919
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-7891-9 / 9780717178919