Dancing in the Streets by Don Watson
Part travelogue and part journalism, this is above all a view of the 1994 World Cup Finals in America, seen chiefly through the eyes of the Italian and Irish football supporters - both the travelling contingent and native American communities. Using football as a backdrop for a wider range of issues, Don Watson draws on music and literature, and examines attitudes to nation and patriotism, and to the culture of being in exile. And as well as the fortunes of Italy and Ireland, those of the other World Cup teams are considered.
Don Watson is the author of Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, which won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award, and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year; Death Sentence, which won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year; Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words; and American Journeys, which won The Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Book of the Year, the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction, and the Walkley Non-Fiction Award. In 2010 Don was awarded the Phillip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Australian Literature. Since 2003 his website weaselwords.com.au has been documenting the viral spread of management-speak and the decline of public language. His critically acclaimed 2014 book The Bush recently won the Indie Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Literary Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780575058828 |
| ISBN 10 | 057505882X |
| Title | Dancing in the Streets |
| Author | Don Watson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1994-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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