Fan [electronic resource]
Rhodes, Danny2014
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His blossoming relationship with girlfriend, Jen, is his only other respite. In 2004 he spends his days teaching in a southern secondary school while delaying the inevitable onslaught of parenthood. In 1989 fate is leading him inexorably towards an FA Cup Semi-Final at Hillsborough and the worst sporting disaster in British history. In 2004 the tragic suicide of an old friend leads him back to his hometown, to the places and faces he left behind and the memories and moments he's tried to escape. For John Finch, the end of the 1980s delivers calamity, murder, drugs, paranoia, the end of his relationship with Jen and a potentially terminal separation from the game he loves. 2004 serves up aggression, guilt, bouts of post-traumatic stress, a violent showdown with his past and an opportunity to redeem himself for all that happened fifteen years previously. Fan is a book about personal and collective tragedy. It's about growing up and not growing up, about manhood and about what makes a man, and about football's role in reflecting a society never more than a brick's throw away from shattering point.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Arcadia Books, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781909807815
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English
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2973860
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