{"product_id":"9781448213788","title":"Kick and Run : Memoir with Soccer Ball","description":"\u003cp\u003eKick and Run is a gripping, funny, sometimes heartbreaking account of a life well lived and a game played, if not always masterfully, then certainly with the utmost passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Jonathan Wilson is an intellectual hooligan: Kick and Run is a book of brilliant anecdotes and fantastic wit, nostalgia and twisted love. This memoir is full of sharp insights, a sort of Speak Memory centered on the mysteries of soccer and fandom and revealing an amazing world of Jewish culture and history.' Josip Novakovich, Man Booker International Prize finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up Jewish in London with a difficult home life, Jonathan Wilson had plenty of reasons to feel he didn't belong, and one reason to feel certain he did: football. Wilson discovered his love for the game as a young boy; through his adolescence and adulthood and well into his later years it remained an important part of his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFootball became Wilson's international passport, helping him find friends and community and solace all over the globe, from England to Israel to the US. Whether working on a kibbutz or teaching literature to young Americans, traveling through Russia or raising children, the sport remained a constant in his life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKick and Run is a gripping, funny, sometimes heartbreaking account of a life well lived and a game played, if not always masterfully, then certainly with the utmost passion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Reader","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46347908972623,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":525.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781448213788","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}