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Penalty area / Alain Gillot ; translated from the French by Howard Curtis.

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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Curtis, Howard
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
Uniform Title
Surface de réparation. English
Alternative Title
Surface de réparation.
Subject
  • Soccer coaches > Fiction
  • Uncles > Fiction
  • Asperger's syndrome > Patients > Fiction
  • Soccer goalkeepers > Fiction
  • Families > Fiction
  • Asperger's syndrome > Patients
  • Families
  • Soccer coaches
  • Soccer goalkeepers
  • Uncles
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Domestic fiction
  • Domestic fiction.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781609453534
  • 1609453530
OCLC
932386180
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library