Isbn: 9798316288564 - High Tackle: a Rugby Novel (9 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In rugby, you can be the best player in the world. On your own, you are nothing.After a disastrous season that almost ended in relegation, the Tarragona Gladiators need to believe again. Lluís Pujol returns home to take over as head coach, knowing that rebuilding a team is about far more than tactics.Around him is a squad full of competing dreams. Miguel Quijano, the forty-year-old captain refusing to surrender to age. Joan Pla, an eighteen-year-old prospect taking his first steps into professional rugby. Ulises Joyce, an Irishman still searching for his own Ithaca. Verlaine Baudelaire, a media star determined to prove he is more than a famous face.As the season unfolds, victories and defeats bring pressure, injuries, ambition, money, loyalty and ego into the dressing room.High Tackle is a character-driven rugby novel about professional sport, friendship, sacrifice and the thin line between success and failure.Because matches may be won by points. Teams are built by people.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In rugby, you can be the best player in the world. On your own, you are nothing.After a disastrous season that almost ended in relegation, the Tarragona Gladiators need to believe again. Lluis Pujol returns home to take over as head coach, knowing that rebuilding a team is about far more than tactics.Around him is a squad full of competing dreams. Miguel Quijano, the forty-year-old captain refusing to surrender to age. Joan Pla, an eighteen-year-old prospect taking his first steps into professional rugby. Ulises Joyce, an Irishman still searching for his own Ithaca. Verlaine Baudelaire, a media star determined to prove he is more than a famous face.As the season unfolds, victories and defeats bring pressure, injuries, ambition, money, loyalty and ego into the dressing room.High Tackle is a character-driven rugby novel about professional sport, friendship, sacrifice and the thin line between success and failure.Because matches may be won by points. Teams are built by people. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Lluis Pujol, a rugby coach, returns to Tarragona. He comes to train the local rugby team and to try to win back the woman he loves. A look at professional sport, sports journalism and the opium of the people. Also in impossible relationships, lost love and the Oval Universe, everything that is thrown comes back. To say that the novel's plot is unexpected may surprise the reader. That's part of its charm. It's not what one expects when opening the book. "Lost loves. The memory can be capricious. Often, it seduces oblivion. Sport is a tangle. It is like a spider's web made of empty information that only sells images and unimportant facts. Professionalism at the cost of corrupting its essence while some surrender this essence in favour of frivolous things. But if the essence remains, there's still hope." "On those Saturday afternoons I watched rugby matches. The excitement was greater than that of football. In rugby there are no hiding places. "Just as there are none in this steady-handed novel, some losers are, in fact, winners." Good novels shouldn't be round but oval. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…