The Roar of the Crowd: A Sporting Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 071230973X ISBN 13: 9780712309738

Publisher: British Library Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Julian Walker is a writer and artist who leads workshops at the British Library on literature, art, history, printing and the English language. His previous books include How to Cure the Plague and Other Curious Remedies and The Finishing Touch.

About this edition

• Publisher: British Library Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 071230973X
• ISBN 13: 9780712309738
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Walker Julian