John C. Turnbull

The volume - including 56 entries of poetry, essay, memoir, short and experimental fiction, ethnography, diary, crónica, fable, epistle, speech, and blog - shows how soccer lends perspective to cultural practices around the world, to gender relationships, to resistance, to human quests for knowing in ground and sky. As Ian Jack, former Granta editor, suggests in his recollections of the game in Scotland, soccer is “not so much a religion, more a way of life” – encompassing noble gesture and cruelty, transformation and loss.… (més)