Buy this book on-line ANCONA, RONNI and McGOWAN, ALISTAIR: : A Matter of Life and Death - Or How to Wean a Man Off FootballLONDON. FABER and FABER LIMITED,2009. ISBN 9780571250547.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,colour pictorial+photographic illustrated dw/dj with red,white+blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine apart from an accidental(?) corner crease to top of pp3/4. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,dark blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,white ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip and clean,red endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-251pp [paginated] includes 42 chapters and acknowledgements to rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,humorous Warning page,plus 12pp blanks at rear.
Ronni Ancona is fed up with football: the way it dominates TV, takes over men's brains and ruins relationships.So,for the sake of women everywhere,Ronni conducts an experiment to see if a man can be made to give up the very thing he claims he cannot live without.
But who would agree to be Ronni's guinea pig? Surely not her ex-boyfriend,ALISTAIR McGOWAN, who has devoted much of his life to the game - from a childhood obsession with everything to do with Leeds United to an adult addiction to the Ceefax football pages (and a disturbing interest in attendances!)?
Over the course of a year,using feminine guile, replacement techniques and endless rounds of toast and Marmite,Ronni systematically does all she can to distract her former boyfriend during
these early months of withdrawal.But what actually happens when a man gives up the thing he loves the most? And after being 'clean' for the whole summer,will the lure of a new football season break his resolve? And is Ronni really capable of being 'systematic'?
Part memoir of a football addict,part comedy self-help manual,'A Matter of Life and Death' is a brilliant,banter-fuelled book about the endlessly frustrating differences between men and women.
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