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Item Details
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DUB SUB CONFIDENTIAL
A GOALKEEPER'S LIFE WITH - AND WITHOUT - THE DUBS |
| By: |
John Leonard |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£13.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1844883566 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781844883561 |
| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
24 September, 2015 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
John Leonard was a gifted Gaelic football goalkeeper who had the misfortune to reach his prime at the same time, and in the same county, as one of the all-time greats: Stephen Cluxton. Unless something happened to Clucko, Leonard was always going to be number 2. This is a book about how Gaelic games collide with real life. |
| Synopsis: |
Dub Sub Confidential by John Leonard: a GAA memoir like no other. John Leonard was a gifted Gaelic football goalkeeper who had the misfortune to reach his prime at the same time, and in the same county, as one of the all-time greats: Stephen Cluxton. Unless something happened to Clucko, Leonard was always going to be number 2. Of course, it didn't help that he had a problem with drink and drugs...Dub Sub Confidential is John Leonard's vivid, witty and searingly honest account of his life in and out of sport. He was both a committed Dub and a sceptical observer of the goings on in the dressing-room and on the training pitch. He writes about the players and the mentors, and about the oddity of being part of the GAA's biggest circus while never expecting to get on the pitch. And he writes brilliantly about the demons that led him to addiction, his efforts for many years to party hard and train hard, and his eventual breakthrough to sobriety. Dub Sub Confidential is a GAA memoir like no other yet published - a book about how Gaelic games collide with real life. It is also a brilliant read from a remarkable personality. "Reads like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...a great read."(Ray D'Arcy, RTE Radio 1). "As fascinating as its insights into the Dublin dressing room and the big matchdays are, to reduce Dub Sub Confidential to being just a sports or GAA book is to do it an injustice; it is an astonishing, exceptional, visceral account of a confused young man." (Irish Examiner). "Remarkable...a stark and searingly honest memoir." (the42.ie). |
| Publication: |
Ireland |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Ireland |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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