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A Fan for All Seasons
- Author
- Jon Harvey
- Narrator
- Jon Harvey
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 3 August 2023
- Run Time
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selection
A hilarious, heartfelt, nostalgia-infused story of sport, loss and the journey of a lifetime.
After the sudden death of his older brother, Dan, Jon Harvey turned to the thing that had provided their strongest connection: sport, in all its myriad sublime and ridiculous forms. He made it his mission to visit as many events as he possibly could in a single year – to build the ultimate season ticket.
A kaleidoscopic twelve months took him from London Olympia to ancient Olympia, from rugby balls to Rubik's Cubes, Wimbledon tennis to Wimbledon greyhounds, from tennis legend Roger Federer to darts hero Martin 'Wolfie' Adams, and much, much more. It's a celebration, of sport, life, and an unbreakable bond between two brothers.
'Warm, sad and funny... There is something very eccentric and British about A Fan for All Seasons' - Sunday Times
©2023 Jon Harvey (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Warm, sad and funny... There is something very eccentric and British about A Fan for All Seasons
Sunday Times
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Vivid and funny... This is a wonderfully touching book about fandom and grief
Daily Mail
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Both funny and frivolous, sad and serious… an uplifting book that ultimately serves to help explain and excuse the time we all spend watching sport
Radio Times
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The book…[has] honesty and passion at its heart. Jon Harvey is an excellent recreator of the atmosphere at a packed stadium or a hushed theatre… Most affectingly of all, he shows how sport can play its part in grieving
Times Literary Supplement
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Details
- Author
- Jon Harvey
- Narrator
- Jon Harvey
- Duration
- 10 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529900279
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Memoirs, Autobiography: sport, Sport: general, Sociology: sport and leisure, Other sports and competitive activities, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Humour
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A BBC Arts & The Reading Agency's Big Sporting Read selectionA hilarious, heartfelt, nostalgia-infused story of sport, loss and the journey of a lifetime.After the sudden death of his older brother, Dan, Jon Harvey turned to the thing that had provided their strongest connection: sport, in all its myriad sublime and ridiculous forms. He made it his mission to visit as many events as he possibly could in a single year – to build the ultimate season ticket.A kaleidoscopic twelve months took him from London Olympia to ancient Olympia, from rugby balls to Rubik's Cubes, Wimbledon tennis to Wimbledon greyhounds, from tennis legend Roger Federer to darts hero Martin 'Wolfie' Adams, and much, much more. It's a celebration, of sport, life, and an unbreakable bond between two brothers.'Warm, sad and funny... There is something very eccentric and British about A Fan for All Seasons' - Sunday Times©2023 Jon Harvey (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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