How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor ' DJ Taylor 'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. Carr In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are England's most obscure team. This uncategorizable, surreal and extremely funny novel is the story of how they start the season by ravaging the Fenland League and end it by going all the way to Wembley. Told through unreliable recollection, florid local newspaper coverage and bizarre committee minutes, How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup is both entertaining and moving. There will never be players again like Alex Slingsby, Sid 'the Shooting Star' Swift and the immortal milkman-turned-goalkeeper, Monkey Tonks. Zusammenfassung Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, in their new all-buttercup-yellow stripe, start it by ravaging the Fenland League and end it with a phenomenal nail-biter against Glasgow Rangers.

Product details

• Authors: J. L. Carr
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9780241252345
• ISBN: 978-0-241-25234-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; SPORTS & RECREATION / Football, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Modern and contemporary fiction, c 1970 to c 1979, Football (Soccer, Association football), Association football (Soccer), c 1970 to c 1980