Playing Hard
A Life and Death in Games, Sports, and Play
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Product details:
- Publisher Cormorant Books
- Date of Publication 15 February 2025
- ISBN 9781770867772
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages198 pages
- Size 215x139x13 mm
- Weight 243 g
- Language English 638
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Short description:
Reflecting on his reconnection with his terminally ill father through their shared love of games, Peter Unwin produces a collection of personal essays that explores how the power of play can create connection and levity, even in the face of grief, war, or violence.
MoreLong description:
Playing Hard is a tribute to the power of play in all its forms ? a searching personal account of how play, games, and sports sanctify life and give it meaning. In this moving and wide-ranging examination, Peter Unwin reflects on life and relationships through countless acts of play and the many unexpected places it is found.
Through a shared love of games, the author reconnects with his terminally ill father and is exposed to the complexities of his father?s past, of his experiences with war and violence, and of a different but equally powerful commitment to a life of play.
From Snakes and Ladders to shooting pool, from an improbable soccer game in the Sahara to first memories of playing baseball under catalpa trees ? Peter Unwin examines the irresistible urge to have fun, reminding us that to live is to play, and to play hard is to live well.
?Playing Hard is a beautifully written collection of personal essays examining family, loss, history and culture viewed through the language of sport ? which so often is also the language of men, when conversations around a game are really conversations about everything else.? More
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