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New edition with additional material. From the creator of the Digested Read, a hilarious take on the life of the obsessive football fan of a team that almost always disappoints.
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Spurs, Bale and One Fan's Fear of Success
$39.27
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2014
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Summary
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs … then you’re probably not a football fan.
Years of underachievement. An heroic sense of injustice. A seemingly infinite capacity for self-destruction. John Crace and Spurs were made for each other. But then the team started to play like possible champions. For most fans, these are the glory moments they dream about. For Crace they just opened a new dimension of anxiety: the fear of success.Crace …Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472115775 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472115775 |
| Author: | John Crace |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2014 |
| Weight: | 242g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 201mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
John Crace
John Crace is a staff feature writer for the Guardian, where he is best known for the literary pastiche ‘Digested Read’. He has also written several books, including the semi-fictional comic memoirs Baby Alarm and The Second Half. He lives in south-west London but travels to N17 for every home game.
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