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Kick the Balls

A Bruising Season in the Life of a Suburban Soccer Coach

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Descripción editorial

A "hilarious and utterly irreverent tale" (Irvine Welsh) of a year in the life of an abrasive pee-wee soccer coach

Growing up in Scotland, Alan Black learned that soccer was no mere game; it was a matter of life or death. In this harshly hilarious tale, Black, a Glasglow transplant living in suburban California, coaches the Dragons, a peewee team that proves an embarrassment to his beloved sport. They're pampered. They're soft. They've been told by their overprotective parents that (gasp!) "winning isn't everything." Using drills and bombast, Black attempts to whip the team into shape.

Kick the Balls is a sidesplitting memoir of grass stains and free kicks, a no-holds-barred account of one man's bafflement by an alien culture, and a stinging satire of American parenthood. Alan Black's voice-howling from the sidelines-is that rare thing: a fresh, original, winning comic talent.

GÉNERO
Biografías y memorias
PUBLICADO
2008
12 de junio
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
272
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Penguin Publishing Group
VENTAS
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
TAMAÑO
600.6
KB

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