- Literature, Leeds United (Soccer team), Fiction, Social conditions
Overachieving and eccentric football manager Brian Clough was on his way to take over at the country's most successful, and most reviled football club: Leeds United, home to a generation of fiercely competitive but ageing players. The battle he'd face there would make or break the club - or him.David Peace's extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterised by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, prestige, bleak and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- David Peace
- First published
- August 17, 2006
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd, Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571246076
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 4 have read it and 7 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
The gargoyle 200882% alikeBoth grave.
The Book Thief 199881% alikeBoth grave.
How much of these hills is gold 202081% alikeBoth grave.
Yeni hayat 199481% alikeBoth grave.
True history of the Kelly gang 200081% alikeBoth grave.
Maus I 198679% alikeBoth grave.
The book of night women 200978% alikeBoth grave.
Atonement 200177% alikeBoth grave.
Touch of Evil 195882% alikeFilm · Both grave.- Quadrophenia 197378% alikeMusic · Both grave.