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An exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics
In The Striker and the Clock, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between team mates, and also the years of self-denial, exile and obsessive dedication, in which players try to outpace the clock that ticks down to that one injury that will end it all.
Threading between floodlit pitches, sparse dorm rooms, and doctor's offices, Cloepfil outlines an obsessive pursuit of perfection: one that sees her begin each day by touching the ball a thousand times; running over six miles in practices with a meter strapped to her body; and near-constant visualization and revisualization of triumph and despair.
What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have a compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.
In The Striker and the Clock, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between team mates, and also the years of self-denial, exile and obsessive dedication, in which players try to outpace the clock that ticks down to that one injury that will end it all.
Threading between floodlit pitches, sparse dorm rooms, and doctor's offices, Cloepfil outlines an obsessive pursuit of perfection: one that sees her begin each day by touching the ball a thousand times; running over six miles in practices with a meter strapped to her body; and near-constant visualization and revisualization of triumph and despair.
What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have a compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.
An exhilarating and searing memoir about life as a professional female footballer - and a beautiful examination of the joy and pain of serious athletics
In The Striker and the Clock, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between team mates, and also the years of self-denial, exile and obsessive dedication, in which players try to outpace the clock that ticks down to that one injury that will end it all.
Threading between floodlit pitches, sparse dorm rooms, and doctor's offices, Cloepfil outlines an obsessive pursuit of perfection: one that sees her begin each day by touching the ball a thousand times; running over six miles in practices with a meter strapped to her body; and near-constant visualization and revisualization of triumph and despair.
What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have a compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.
In The Striker and the Clock, Georgia Cloepfil tells the story of her life in football: the triumph, the exhilaration, the deep bonds between team mates, and also the years of self-denial, exile and obsessive dedication, in which players try to outpace the clock that ticks down to that one injury that will end it all.
Threading between floodlit pitches, sparse dorm rooms, and doctor's offices, Cloepfil outlines an obsessive pursuit of perfection: one that sees her begin each day by touching the ball a thousand times; running over six miles in practices with a meter strapped to her body; and near-constant visualization and revisualization of triumph and despair.
What emerges is a profound meditation on what it is to have a body, and what it is to have a compulsion to push it to do the near impossible; and a love letter to the motivations, joys, pains and desires of a beautiful game.
Über den Autor
Georgia Cloepfil
Zusammenfassung
The Striker and the Clock is the perfect read for fans of intimate, unflinching memoir - such as Amy Liptrot's The Outrun and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear - as well as readers of classic sports memoirs, from William Finnegan's Barbarian Days to Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
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Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9781526668516 |
ISBN-10: | 1526668513 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Cloepfil, Georgia |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 219 x 138 x 24 mm |
Von/Mit: | Georgia Cloepfil |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.07.2024 |
Gewicht: | 0,316 kg |
Über den Autor
Georgia Cloepfil
Zusammenfassung
The Striker and the Clock is the perfect read for fans of intimate, unflinching memoir - such as Amy Liptrot's The Outrun and Lamorna Ash's Dark, Salt, Clear - as well as readers of classic sports memoirs, from William Finnegan's Barbarian Days to Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2024 |
---|---|
Genre: | Biographien, Importe |
Rubrik: | Belletristik |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9781526668516 |
ISBN-10: | 1526668513 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Cloepfil, Georgia |
Hersteller: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 219 x 138 x 24 mm |
Von/Mit: | Georgia Cloepfil |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.07.2024 |
Gewicht: | 0,316 kg |
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