Football
New York: Penguin Press, 2026. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. [x],294pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, stamped spine and front boards. No dust jacket as issued. Book is a first edition and a stated first printing. The author has signed his name on a publisher's tipped-in page. Book is unread, unmarked, tight, and bright. Gift quality. Fine / no dj. Item #0004942
From promotional material: "Klosterman gets to the bottom of all of it. He takes us to a metaphorical projection of Texas, where the religion of six-man football merges with America’s Team [sic] and makes an inexplicable impact on a boy in North Dakota. He dissects the question of natural greatness, the paradox of gambling and war, and the timeless caricature of the uncompromising head coach. He interrogates the perfection of football’s marriage with television and the morality of acceptable risk. He even conjures an extinction-level event. If Žižek liked the SEC more than he liked cinema, if Stephen Jay Gould cared about linebackers more than he cared about dinosaurs, if Steve Martin played quarterback instead of the banjo . . . it would still be nothing like this."
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