Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid

Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid chronicles the author's decade-long obsession with televised sport during his teenage years in the1980s. Charting similar waters to Nick Hornby's classic Fever Pitch, but with the hopeless devotion of a teenager faithfully following histeam around the country replaced by the hopeless devotion of a teenager faithfully following sport (any sport) around the TV schedules.It is memoir intertwined with nostalgia, ruminations on the changing face of sport during this time, portraits of its heroes and villains, andreflections on teenagehood and impending adulthood.Sweet, wise and witty, Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid is a hymn to televised sport in the 1980s - as well as to the decade itself -combining humour, insight and poignancy to vividly depict the way sport can transcend the television screen to impact on wider life, hopesand ambitions.

Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid relateaza obsesia autorului de zece ani pentru sportul televizat in anii adolescentei din anii 1980. Traind ape similare clasicului Fever Pitch al lui Nick Hornby, dar cu devotamentul deznadajduit al unui adolescent care urmareste cu fidelitate istoria in jurul tarii inlocuit de devotiunea fara speranta a unui adolescent care urmareste cu fidelitate sportul (orice sport) in jurul programelor TV. , ruminari pe fata schimbatoare a sportului in acest timp, portrete ale eroilor si ticalosilor sai, si reflectii asupra adolescentei si a iminitatii maturitatii. Dulce, intelept si intelept, Butch Wilkins si Sundance Kid este un imn al sportului televizat in anii 1980 - de asemenea in ceea ce priveste deceniul in sine - combinand umorul, perspicacitatea si intensitatea pentru a descrie in mod viu modul in care sportul poate transcende ecranul televizorului pentru a avea un impact asupra vietii mai largi, a sperantelor si ambitiilor.