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Dennie wendt is a twenty-year veteran of storytelling in the shoe (and soccer) business.
On the one hand, this mise en scène sets hooper’s revolution up as an allegory for how popular sports such as soccer can act as trojan horses for politics and ideology, especially if — as in the case of the new york giganticos — teams are “owned by a free-spending manhattan media conglomerate.
May 2, 2017 a re-imagining of american soccer's origin storywith spies. Hooper's revolution is the excellent new book from howler contributor dennie.
Involves a soviet plot to killer a famous brazilian, an englishman imported to a fledgling.
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But quietly, there is something of a women’s soccer revolution going on here. And one of its leaders, of all people, is an iranian-american.
Dennie wendt’s hooper’s revolution is a wildly entertaining read, one of the top soccer titles we have ever reviewed. It’s an eclectic mix of creative alternate history, unruly fiction, and a massive passion for the beautiful game.
Mar 22, 2020 former swindon and peterborough player dean hooper discusses his hooper decided to tell someone in football the story that he had kept.
Editorial reviews dennie wendt’s hooper’s revolution is a wildly entertaining read, one of the top soccer titles we have ever reviewed. It’s an eclectic mix of creative alternate history, unruly fiction, and a massive passion for the beautiful game.
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In the goofy and fun hooper’s revolution, soccer in america really is a communist plot in hooper’s revolution, portland’s timbers army are portrayed as pot-smoking hippies high up in the north end — which is not even fictional, to be honest.
A fantastic read! probably the most entertaining story i'll read all year. Even if you are not a fan of soccer, but especially if you are a fan of soccer, hooper's revolution will keep you laughing and entranced throughout the entire book. I plan to give this book as a gift to all my friends in the next few years.
The healthcare revolution at home director: tom hooper; cast: michael sheen, timothy spall faction' meets 'bromance'.
May 2, 2017 simply put, it feels like 'the man in the high castle', 'once in a lifetime', and a hunter thompson novel rolled together.
It all comes together in wendt's hooper’s revolution, a novel of soccer, the ’70s, and america, in which a lower-division englishman is sent to portland to save a team from utter mediocrity, his career from a hideous mistake, and the greatest player on the planet from a sinister soviet plotall with a decidedly rose city mystique.
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On the football field, he cannot be stopped, and off the field, the stories and pictures and rumors uncle and aunt harley and bridgette hooper, who own the nicest clothing store in tyler.
A re-imagining of american soccer’s origin storywith spies hooper’s revolution is the excellent new book from howler contributor dennie wendt. It’s set in a brilliantly constructed alternate world of 1970s american soccer and tasks its brutish english third-division footballer protagonist with foiling a communist plot.
Hooper's revolution it's 1976 and the united states is home to the giganticos, a football super squad led by the one and only pearl of brazil, and more or less the only reason aassa (american all-star soccer association) exists.
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