Description for The Damned United
Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; WSBT; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 80.
When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We'd never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and fight and nous, which are the exact same qualities you used at Derby. And out of jealousy, you never tried to understand that. Never tried to make the most of that. Sad. 1974. Brian Clough, the enfant terrible of British football, tries ... Read more
When Don Revie took over this club, Leeds were a rugby league town. No interest in football. Gates under 10,000. We'd never won a thing. He built one of the great clubs of English football, one of the great teams of English football, from scratch on barren ground from nothing more than spirit and fight and nous, which are the exact same qualities you used at Derby. And out of jealousy, you never tried to understand that. Never tried to make the most of that. Sad. 1974. Brian Clough, the enfant terrible of British football, tries ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Modern Plays
Condition
New
Weight
79g
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350005136
SKU
V9781350005136
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About David Peace
Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre, where his first two plays, The Insurgents (2007) and Enduring Freedom (2008), were produced. Other work includes The Punishment Stories, (shortlisted for the 2007 Verity Bargate Award), an adaptation of Slawomir Mrozek's The Police (BAC 2007), The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie (2010) for the National Theatre Studio and If You ... Read more
Reviews for The Damned United
In his novel, Peace has created a character who seems infinitely more human and real than those who appear in any number of non-fiction books - it is quite an achievemen
Scotsman on the original novel of 'The Damned United'
Lustgarten's script captures the complexity of Clough as a flawed hero - there is ... Read more
Scotsman on the original novel of 'The Damned United'
Lustgarten's script captures the complexity of Clough as a flawed hero - there is ... Read more