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This Sporting Life
by

David Storey

David's review

Oct 20, 2011

liked it

bookshelves: big-white-square

It's post-war northern England, and love is not building a bridge.

We have a boy in love with a dinosaur.

Dinosaur wrings her hands over beef dripping on the way back from cleaning net curtains in the outside lav, and says things like "What will the neighbours think if we get above our station?" Poor thing doesn't know that they are going to make everything okay by inventing the 1960s.

Boy, successful at rugby football and fending off weird gays and their sexually frustrated beards, insists on buying dinosaur extravagant things, like television sets.

It's "The Wayne Rooney story" – but with rugby and not soccer.

Good fun, but there seemed to be a bit too much of it.

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Reading Progress

October 20, 2011 –Started Reading

October 20, 2011 – Shelved

October 25, 2011 –Finished Reading

November 10, 2011 – Shelved as:big-white-square