A Sports Odyssey

Name: A Sports Odyssey
Author: Grant Farred

Grant Farred

U.S.,Temple University Press

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Grant Farred has long had a passionate connection with sports. In A Sports Odyssey, he weaves together an account of his own sports fandom that is profoundly personal and universal. As readers of his Long Distance Love know, Grant Farred has been a supporter of the English Premier League club, Liverpool Football Club, for decades. His fandom for that team launched an unexpected connection with a world beyond the limits of the apartheid state of his upbringing in South Africa. However, A Sports Odyssey shows that as Farredâ€™s fervor for Liverpool ended, he developed a new set of sports attachments in Ithaca, New York: to his sonâ€™s youth basketball career, to the menâ€™s basketball team at Cornell University and its coach, and even to professional teams like the New York Knicks. Farredâ€™s bemusement at finding himself a sports parent, a New Yorker, and a company man, only underline the sincerity of his affections. In A Sports Odyssey, Farred writes elegantly and eloquently about how sports and sports fandom create a sense of belonging, but also loss. This is a heartfelt examination of how we find â€œhomeâ€ in who and what we love. Â In the series Sporting

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