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Penalty area
- Title
- Penalty area / Alain Gillot ; translated from the French by Howard Curtis.
- Author
- Gillot, Alain
- Publication
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 16-5978 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 185 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Vincent once had a shot at becoming a professional soccer player, but a career-ending injury put an end to his dreams. A tough kid from a poor family, he has become an emotionally cut-off man with frustrated hopes and limited options. He finds himself coaching an under-16 soccer club in an attempt to keep alive his only passion in life. The team he coaches is little more than a roster of hotheaded boys, none of whom understands the on-field chemistry needed to win. Simply put, they aren't of a championship caliber. When his unemployed sister Madeleine, a single mother, dumps her thirteen-year-old son on him, Vincent panics. With no clue how to take care of a teenager, he brings his nephew to practice and eventually throws him into the scrimmage. It's then that Vincent notices there's something strange about Léonard. He has a preternatural ability for anticipating each striker's intentions, making him a remarkably talented goalkeeper, but he seems detached, absent, lost. It becomes clear that Léonard has undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome, and also that, with Léonard's abilities as a goalkeeper, Vincent's ragtag team has a chance to reach the finals. For that to happen, for the team to find a reason to rally behind this strange kid from Paris, Vincent will have to let down his guard and open his heart for the first time ever
- Subjects
- Call Number
- JFD 16-5978
- ISBN
- 9781609453534 (paperback)
- 1609453530 (paperback)
- OCLC
- 932386180
- Author
- Gillot, Alain, author.
- Title
- Penalty area / Alain Gillot ; translated from the French by Howard Curtis.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 16-5978