The First Game with My Father
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0552779636 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
For his wife Catherine, for Michael and his five sisters and three brothers, the landscape of life would change irrevocably. In the early winter of 1983, a generous season for memories, Michael Tierney attended his first—and only—game with his father, John. Miraculously, Celtic overturned a first-leg deficit to thrash Sporting Lisbon, 5-0, with a team of home-grown talent, players that felt as one with the fans. For a self-employed electrician with nine children to support, this was the rarest of opportunities. The First Game with My Father is an evocative family memoir and a journey of discovery into lives that diverge, yet are knitted together by moments of sorrow and joy, and into the nature of identity, especially when tragedy renders a man voiceless. But three decades later, Michael and his wheelchair-bound parent would make an emotional return to Celtic Park. As the years pass, that one magical evening fades in the bustle of family commitments and the constant spectre of unemployment. Then, in 2002, John Tierney has a severe stroke that renders him immobile and unable to talk. The most intimate portrait of a father and son and how a soccer team unites them in an unbreakable bond, it is also the story of a city, a community, and a treasured w
Tierney's book adds to the canon of great sports writing, which uses sport as a way of interrogating human interaction." Huffington Post "Beautifully written family memoir, set in the Catholic working-class community of Glasgow, which tells a poignant but life-affirming story of love, loss and family." The Bookseller "One of the most moving stories I've ever read I was completely blown away by it." Paul Cuddihy, editor of Celtic View "So moving, I love it." Damian Barr, author of Maggie and Me . "A distance of more than five years from the newspaper industry has not separated Michael Tierney from th
"A truly absorbing account of family love" according to Mary Macneil. I could not put it down. Highly emotional story of a son's relationship both with his father and his mother and the rest of the family, made even more emotional and absorbing by the author's depth of feeling for his dad after his dad's stroke and by his almost real life but imaginary " conversations" with his dad as his dad continued to make little progress if any after the stroke. A wonderfu
He is a winner of the coveted Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism, has twice been named Feature Writer of the Year at the prestigious British Press Awards, and is a four-time winner at the Scottish Press Awards. Michael Tierney is a multi-award winning journalist, editor, and writer.