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Item Details
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
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| By: |
Ronnie Ancona, Alistair McGowan |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571250548 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571250547 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2009 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Ronni's challenge is this: to wean a die-hard football fan off the not-so-beautiful game. She needs a guinea pig on whom she can try out her theory. Who better than her best friend and ex-boyfriend, the truly obsessed Alistair McGowan? |
| Synopsis: |
Ronni Ancona is fed up with football: the way it dominates TV, takes over men's brains and scuppers any chance of romance. And so, for the sake of women everywhere, Ronni concocts 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 kicking a ball about to an adult addiction to Ceefax football pages and an unhealthy interest in attendances? Over the course of a year, we follow TV's best-known male/female double act in a hilarious battle of the sexes. Using replacement techniques - walks, culture and endless rounds of toast and Marmite - Ronni does all she can to distract her former boyfriend during these early months of withdrawal. But what happens when a man gives up the thing he loves most? And after being 'clean' for the whole summer, will the lure of a new season break his resolve? 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 differences between men and women. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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