David Peace - Red or Dead
| Schrijver: | David Peace |
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| Titel: | Red or Dead |
| ISBN: | 9780571280650 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | Faber & Faber |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2013, Hardcover, 736p |
| Prijs: | € 20,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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The place where the swinging sixties started – Liverpool, England, birthplace of the Beatles – wasn’t so swinging. Amid industrial blight and a bad economy, the port town’s shipping industry was going bust and there was widespread unemployment, with no assistance from a government tightening its belt. Even the Beatles moved to London.\n\nInto these hard times walked Bill Shankly, a former Scottish coal miner who took over the city’s perpetually last-place soccer team. He had a straightforward work ethic and a favorite song – a silly pop song done by a local band, “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Soon he would have entire stadiums singing along, tens of thousands of people all dressed in the team color red . . . as Liverpool began to win . . .\n\nAnd soon, too, there was something else those thousands of people would chant as one: Shank-lee, Shank-lee . . .\n\nIn Red or Dead, the acclaimed writer David Peace tells the stirring story of the real-life working-class hero who lifted the spirits of an entire city in turbulent times. But Red or Dead is more than a fictional biography of a real man, and more than a thrilling novel about sports. It is an epic novel that transcends those categories, until there’s nothing left to call it but – as many of the world’s leading newspapers already have – a masterpiece.
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