Libro Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach De Alan Black

portada Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Plume

Autor

Alan Black

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

255

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.45

ISBN

0452295394

ISBN13

9780452295391

Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach

Alan Black (Autor) · Plume · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Kick the Balls: A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach"

A "hilarious and utterly irreverent tale" (Irvine Welsh) of a year in the life of an abrasive pee-wee soccer coach Growing up in Scotland, Alan Black learned that soccer was no mere game; it was a matter of life or death. In this harshly hilarious tale, Black, a Glasglow transplant living in suburban California, coaches the Dragons, a peewee team that proves an embarrassment to his beloved sport. They're pampered. They're soft. They've been told by their overprotective parents that (gasp!) "winning isn't everything." Using drills and bombast, Black attempts to whip the team into shape. Kick the Balls is a sidesplitting memoir of grass stains and free kicks, a no-holds-barred account of one man's bafflement by an alien culture, and a stinging satire of American parenthood. Alan Black's voice-howling from the sidelines-is that rare thing: a fresh, original, winning comic talent.