Roar of the Crowd by Julian Walker
So many things are at work in our relationship with sport. Partisanship at the most visceral level, amazement at the display of the human body operating at the extremes of power, speed and strength, appreciation of grace, cunning, timing, spatial awareness, drama, forethought. Decades of rivalry are balanced by moments of sweet skill. This major new anthology of great sports writing captures the drama, the moments of speed and strength, as portrayed by great writers about many sports across the centuries. Stories and excerpts include Doris Lessing's Through the Tunnel, Enid Bagnold's National Velvet, CLR James's A Majestic Innings, Ring Lardner's The Champion, Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, Garrison Keillor's Attitude, Joyce Carol Oates's On Boxing, Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream, P.G. Wodehouse's The Heart of a Goof, and Homer's The Iliad.
Julian Walker is an educator at the British Library, an artist and writer. His books on language include Discovering Words, Team Talk: Sporting Words and their Origins and Trench Talk: Words of the First World War. Christophe Declercq is a lecturer in translation (University College London, UK and University of Antwerp, Belgium) who has been working on Belgian refugees in Britain for well over a decade. On the subject, he has spoken widely at conferences in both Britain and Belgium, has worked with the BBC and VRT (Belgian television) and manages several social media outlets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712309738 |
| ISBN 10 | 071230973X |
| Title | Roar of the Crowd |
| Author | Julian Walker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | British Library Board |
| Year published | 2016-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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