The Global Game: Writers on Soccer

by Thom Satterlee

Book Overview

Includes "The Empty Pleasure" by 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Winner Mario Vargas Llosa

The world's most popular sport, soccer, is also one of the planet's prevalent cultural expressions, celebrated and debated as an art form, observed with ritual and passion. Thus it has inspired literary efforts of every sort, from every corner of the globe, by women and men. The writings gathered in this volume reflect the universal and infinitely varied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803210787
• ISBN13: 9780803210783
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"