- Basketball stories, Bildungsromans, Basketball players, Fiction
Set in post-war Hungary between 1944 and 1956, the story follows the lives of two young men and in particular their careers in a travelling basketball team. They spend most of their time in the avoidance of work and army service and in the pursuit of sex.
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Classical in form, cool, comic and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Tibor Fischer
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Distributed by W.W. Norton, Picador USA, New Pr
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780748661336
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“It was true that at the age of twenty-five he had never left the country, that he had never got more than three days' march from his birthplace, no more than a day and a half of horse and carting or one long afternoon's locomoting.”
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