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Brilliant Orange: the neurotic genius of dutch soccer.
by WINNER, David
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- first
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Berkeley, California, United States
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Synopsis
Brilliant range is a book about Dutch soccer that's not really about Dutch socer. It's more about an enigmatic way of thinking peculiar to a people whose landscape is unrelentingly flat, mostly below sea level, ad who owe their salvation to a boy who plugged a fractured dike with his little inger. If any one thing, Brilliant Orange is about Dutch space and a people whose unique conception of it has led to ome of the most enduring art, the weirdest architecture, and a bizarrely crebral form of soccer--Total Football--that led in 1974 to a World Cup finalsmatch with arch-rival Germany and more recently to a devastating loss againstSpain in 2010. With its intricacy and oddity, it continues to mystify and delght observers around the world. As David Winner wryly observes, it is an expression of the Dutch psyche that has a shaed ancestry with the Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie , Rembrandt's Th Night Watch, maybe even with Gouda cheese. Finally here in paperbck, Brilliant Orange reaches out to the reader from an unexpected place andnever lets go.
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- Bookseller
- Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69122
- Title
- Brilliant Orange: the neurotic genius of dutch soccer.
- Author
- WINNER, David
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition.
- Publisher
- Woodstock & NY: Overlook Press
- Date Published
- (2002).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
Any book returnable for any reason within 10 days with prior notice. CA residents please add 9.5% sales tax. Libraries can be billed as needed.
About the Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
About Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA
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