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Soccer On Sunday In The Park
Paperback
Publisher: Tablecloth Publishing
Published: Feb 22 2025
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What can kicking a ball across a field teach us about life, about relationships, about striving for success and avoiding failure? What can a game reveal about who we are, our desires, and our fears? What does a reality TV hopeful, a 19'th Century industrialist, and the philosopher Albert Camus have to do with any of this? The answers can be found in Soccer On Sunday In The Park.
In a box of her fathers possessions, a woman discovers a journal, written in her fathers hand, detailing the activities of a weekly informal soccer game. Through the dated entries, we learn about a disparate group of individuals who gather each week at a local park to participate in the game. As the weeks of the year progress and the seasons change, we get to know the players through the journal entries, and details of their lives are revealed, funny and tragic, challenging and triumphant.
As the ball skitters and bounces across the grass, the players in pursuit, each strives in their own ways to find the beauty in the game. They come from various backgrounds, different stages of life, with diverse sensibilities, and yet they find ways to come together, cooperate, and compete. Theirs is nothing but a simple game, and yet very much more than a game. Soccer On Sunday In the Park is full of surprises to the last kick.
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