By Dave Hannigan
ISBN-10: 0717178927
ISBN-13: 9780717178926
A college of private thoughts omitted into kin fantasy, Boy Wonder is a humorous and relocating account of a adolescence spent, like numerous others, on pitches, sidelines and stands, suffering to make experience of festival and the oversized function it performs within the lives of guys and boys, fathers and sons. From tricky classes at the parish box and the politics of afterschool soccer to the euphoria of Croke Park and brushes with demigods like Jimmy Barry-Murphy and Roy Keane, Boy ask yourself is a poignant comedian memoir approximately relatives, recreation and the rites of passage that form each early life. it's one man’s tale – yet a testomony to each man’s experience.
‘If you ever strung a size of washing line around the highway to aim to duplicate the thrill of Wimbledon, performed road soccer whereas imagining John Motson simpering over your each contact, trotted round a disadvantage path slapping your bottom in the course of Dublin Horse exhibit week or attempted to emulate Alex Higgins on a four-foot through two-foot snooker desk within the tight confines of a suburban kitchen, then Boy Wonder will make you pain with nostalgia in your personal childhood.’ Paul Howard
‘Utterly authentic.’ Matt Cooper
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