Le milieu de terrain : roman / Patrick Besson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Besson, Patrick, 1956- author.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Soccer stories.

Genre:

Soccer stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : Bernard Grasset, [2018]

Summary:

An extraordinary event, in the middle town of Y, located between Bordeaux and Arcachon: the football club - the YFC - is, for the first time for several years, back in L2 (second division). The president has hired a new coach to maintain and even target the L1 (first division). This coach is Elvis, sixty-one years old, biker, former player of the French team, widower, literate. What we read is his diary. In the first match played by the YFC in L2, Elvis falls in love with the wife of a player, Ines, thirty years younger than him. This tense situation will be at the origin of various dramas, reversals and misunderstandings succeeding one another at a high football rhythm until the final suspense: Is Ines Elvis's own daughter and YFC will succeed, under the Aegis of his coach, to join the elite of the championship? This very contemporary novel is an acid and smiling X-ray - the Besson way, found in The brothers of consolation, The presidential and Cape Kalafatis , his previous works published by Grasset - the colorful world of sport and the crazy French province, along with a treatise on love in a couple that thirty years separate.--Grasset.

ISBN:

9782246813385

2246813387

OCLC:

1056693693