A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng
Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life? On 10 November 2009 the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was thirty two years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs including Jose Mourinho's Benfica and Louis Van Gaal's Barcelona. Enke was destined to be his country's first choice for years to come. But beneath the bright veneer of success lay a darker story. In A Life Too Short, award-winning writer Ronald Reng pieces together the puzzle of his lost friend's life. Reng brings into sharp relief the specific demands and fears faced by those who play top-level sport. Heartfelt, but never sentimental he tells the universal tragedy of a talented man's struggles against his own demons.
One of the most remarkable sports books ever written… A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke… stands as the definite work on mental illness in football -- Sam Wallace * Daily Telegraph *
Incredible… It’s a stunning, fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking piece of work that has done so much to further the understanding between mental illness and sportIt is also a reminder that, for all the status and all the luxury which come with being a professional footballer, those lucky enough to make a career from the game are still human beings, too -- Tom Hopkinson * People *
An intensely moving book that transcends football -- Raphael Honigstein, Guardian
Deeply affecting -- Ian Hawkey * Sunday Times *
A tragic book, but a brilliant one. Reng's is one of the best sports books to have been published in years * Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung *
Incredible… It’s a stunning, fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking piece of work that has done so much to further the understanding between mental illness and sportIt is also a reminder that, for all the status and all the luxury which come with being a professional footballer, those lucky enough to make a career from the game are still human beings, too -- Tom Hopkinson * People *
An intensely moving book that transcends football -- Raphael Honigstein, Guardian
Deeply affecting -- Ian Hawkey * Sunday Times *
A tragic book, but a brilliant one. Reng's is one of the best sports books to have been published in years * Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung *
Ronald Reng is the highly-acclaimed author of The Keeper of Dreams: One Man's Controversial Story of Life in the English Premiership (Yellow Jersey Press), which won Biography of the Year at the 2004 British Sports Book Awards
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224091657 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224091654 |
| Titel | A Life Too Short |
| Autor | Ronald Reng |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2011-09-29 |
| Seitenanzahl | 400 |
| Preise | Winner of British Sports Book Awards: Football Book of the Year 2012, Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2011 |
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