Ergebnis für "Don Une Don" in Sport

The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence. At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the...

"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." —Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction...

Che fare quando il tuo migliore amico e il tuo primo amore decide di abbandonarti senza una spiegazione e senza alcuna pietà? Des ha lavorato su sé stessa, cercando di dimenticare quanto accaduto, ma andare avanti con un cuore spezzato non è facile. Il giocatore di football, Byron, sembra non pensare più a lei, alla magia che esisteva tra loro. Ma lasciarsi tutto alle spalle sembra impossibile, a causa di una serie di complicazioni i due sono destinati a incontrarsi nuovamente. Des si ritrova costretta a dare ripetizioni a Byron.

When Scott Murphy scored the winning touchdown in the 1991 state championship game, it should have launched a golden future - the full scholarship to Ohio State, the million-dollar signing bonus, marriage to the beauty queen, and NFL glory. Instead, it all ended with a sickening pop as his leg shattered in four places. The next twenty years would be a study in Murphy's Law-whatever could go wrong did. Just when things seem at their worst-he's losing his farm, his relationship with his wife is crumbling - a miracle happens: Murphy gets a chance to reboot his life.

“Exceptional...fast and smart, funny and sad, this is an outstanding sports novel, and Joe Mungo Reed is an author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Sol and Liz are a couple on the cusp. He’s a professional cyclist in the Tour de France, a workhorse, but not yet a star. She’s a...