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How's Your Dad? (Hardcover)
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How's Your Dad? (Hardcover)
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List price R625
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Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Framed within the tribulations of a turbulent year in a racing
yard, How's Your Dad? examines the relationship between a father
and son. The father, Michael Channon Snr, an arthritic workaholic
and "a grumpy old bastard", played football at the highest level
for over twenty years, scoring crucial goals for the likes of
Southampton, Norwich City and most famously, England. Almost
uniquely, he followed up this sporting career with another,
ultimately scaling the heights of the Racing game. With such an
illustrious Father, Michael Channon Jnr had plenty to live up to
and though he enjoyed the many benefits of such a connection he
felt that pressure, as well as the relative anonymity of always
being "Mick's son". Vividly and often humourously told, this story
is balanced with deeply atmospheric, sometimes darkly dramatic,
flashbacks to a youth often misspent. As a small boy Michael Junior
is led out on to the pitch at Wembley on Cup Final Day, as a
student he finds himself in intensive care after succumbing to his
drunken state and the dangers of sleeping on the roof.His promising
career as a TV producer is hampered by an untimely fire in the
workplace as well as a loss of direction, a direction that once
found leads back to where he began, at his Father's side. Rigidly
old fashioned and phenomenally short tempered, Michael Senior
fosters a love/hate relationship, but in caring for his father in
the aftermath of a horrendous car crash Michael Junior poignantly
uncovers the hidden feelings every son has for their Dad.
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