Synopsis
During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war – the language of end zones – become interchanged,...
Details
19 August 2011
240 pages
9780330525718
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
America's greatest living writer.Observer
Nobody, it seems, could write better than this. No one could have a clearer vision of the micro-circuitry of post-modern life.Evening Standard
Powerfully funny, oblique, testy, and playful, tearing along in dazzling cinematic spurts . . . A masterful novel.Washington Post