Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel by Giles Smith

Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel by Giles Smith

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Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties, Giles Smith witnessed many defining sporting moments. This work collects the best of Smith's award-winning columns for the "Daily Telegraph".

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Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel by Giles Smith

Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina beating England on penalties; Germany beating England on penalties; everybody else beating England on penalties, name any one of the defining sporting moments of the last decade, Giles Smith wasn't there. He was at home, watching on the television. like most people. And then he wrote about it. "Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel" collects the best of Smith's award-winning columns for the "Daily Telegraph" into a single volume of fearless, hard-hitting and not always entirely serious reports from sport's front-line - the living room.
Giles Smith is a journalist whose writing has appeared in many British publications and in the New Yorker. He was named Sports Columnist of the Year in 1998. A collection of his sports writing, Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel, was published by Picador in November 2000.
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ISBN 13 9780330481892
ISBN 10 0330481894
Title Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel
Author Giles Smith
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2001-06-08
Number of pages 384
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