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The Kilburn Social Club Robert Hudson

The Kilburn Social Club By Robert Hudson

The Kilburn Social Club by Robert Hudson


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Summary

The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. A medical student inherits KSC and the Rosslare Group, a Liberal-utopian business empire. Can she protect them from the hungry world, from rapacious tycoons, snakes in the grass and the blunderbuss venality of money?

The Kilburn Social Club Summary

The Kilburn Social Club by Robert Hudson

The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It's a dream, a club where no one is more equal than anyone else, managed by an enigmatic war hero, inspired by a gay Argentinian millionaire and led by the restless, World Cup-winning Great Britain captain, and backed by the Rosslare Group, a Liberal-utopian business empire. A medical student inherits KSC and the Rosslare Group. Can she protect them from the hungry world, from rapacious tycoons, snakes in the grass and the blunderbuss venality of money? Why should she have to, and does she even want to? And how will she cope with her football-crazy sister's jealousy? From doomed lust to innocence defiled, from hopeless loss to dulled acceptance to hope reborn, this is an old-fashioned heroes and villains state-of-the-nation romance set in a wish-fulfilment alternative London. The Kilburn Social Club is a story of love, idealism and identity in something like modern, multicultural Britain. It doesn't demand any football pre-knowledge - it's for sceptics and sports lovers alike, neither cynical about what makes fans tick nor devoted to parroting the press-release puff of football's absurd self-image. And beyond this, there are the eternal stories of finding the people we share our lives with, how we choose, what we settle for and why. It is also about the cosmology of footballs.

About Robert Hudson

Robert Hudson was born in Zimbabwe, raised in Essex and lives in Kilburn. He has a PhD in intellectual history from Cambridge University and is currently working on Damsel in Distress, a Gershwin/Wodehouse musical for the Gershwin estate.

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GOR001361965
9780224085847
0224085840
The Kilburn Social Club by Robert Hudson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
20090806
496
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