Grant Farred: Long Distance Love

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A well-known scholar and lifelong soccer fan tells what the game has meant for him<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592133734&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1798_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Long Distance Love</h1> <H2>A Passion for Football</H2> <h3>Grant Farred</h3> <P>cloth 1592133738 $70.50, Feb 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>paper 1592133746 $27.95, Feb 08, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1592133754 $27.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <BR> 224 pp 5.5x8.25 </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"<i>That Farred writes well about football is beyond debate. He brings a distinctive passion to the topic along with a wealth of analytic insights that will please readers versed in the rich lore of the sport and alert to its growing status as an exemplary vehicle of globalization</i></i>." <br>&#151<b>Andrew Ross</b>, New York University, author of<i> Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade</i></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>Grant Farred is a lifelong soccer fan. He has been rooting for one team-Liverpool (England) Football Club-since he was a child. Long Distance Love explains how "football" opened up the world to a young boy growing up disenfranchised in apartheid South Africa. For Farred, being a soccer fan enabled him to establish connections with events and people throughout history and from around the globe: from the Spanish Civil War to the atrocities of the Argentine dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s; from the experience of racism under apartheid to the experience of watching his beloved Liverpool team play on English soil. <p> Farred shows that issues like race, politics, and war are critical to understanding a sport, especially soccer. And he writes beautifully, with candor and lyricism. <i>Long Distance Love</i> does for football what C.L.R. James's <i>Beyond a Boundary</i> did for cricket: it provides poetry and politics in equal measure, along with insights on every page. <BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p> <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"[R]emarkable...In delightfully exuberant prose, Farred recounts a passion that, for him, borders on religion.... Long Distance Love is a playful � yet no less brilliant � work of political theory; its contribution to political thought comes from making such hopeful statements without compromising the immoderate passions that sports fandom indulge." </i><br><b><i>Centre Daily Times</i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <br>Acknowledgements <br>Introduction: A Talk, Drinks, and Dinner with God <br>1. Long Distance Love: Growing Up a Liverpool Football Club Fan <br>2. <i>Los Desaparecidos y la Copa Mundial</i> <br>3. <i>Som m�s que un club, per� menys que una naci�:</i> More than a Club but Less than a Nation <br>4. Careless Whispers: The Doubleness of Spanish Love <br>5. At Home, Out of Place <br>6. God's Team: The Painful Pleasure of the Miracle on the Bosphorus <br>7. The Gerrard Final <br>Notes <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/1798_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Grant Farred</b> is Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University and the author, most recently, of<i> What's My Name?: Black Vernacular Intellectuals</i>. He is a life-long fan of Liverpool Football Club, the greatest and most successful club in the history of English football.</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/sports.html" TARGET="_top">Sports</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/race.html" TARGET="_top">Race and Ethnicity</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/sporting.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Sporting</a></i>, edited by Amy Bass. </p><p>As an international cultural activity for athleticism, spectatorship, and global cultural exchange, sport is unmatched by any other force on earth. And yet it remains a consistently understudied dimension of history and cultural studies. <i>Sporting</i>, edited by Amy Bass, aims to contribute to the study of sport by publishing works by people across a range of disciplines, by professional sportswriters, and by athletes to add substance to our still emerging notion of globalization.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592133734&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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