Lazy Eye

Fiction & Literature, Action Suspense
Cover of the book Lazy Eye by Donna Daley-Clark, MacAdam/Cage Publishing
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Author: Donna Daley-Clark ISBN: 9781596928268
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: MP Publishing Language: English
Author: Donna Daley-Clark
ISBN: 9781596928268
Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: MP Publishing
Language: English
Racial tensions and the plight of immigrant life in 1970s England create the backdrop for the story of a soccer players act of violence that will haunt his son for years to come. At nineteen, Geoffhurst is getting along just fine. He has his own flat away from his family, eight jars to divide his weekly pay, and a standing order at Madame Wongs Chinese Restaurant. But when a reporter offers to pay him handsomely to tell his story, Geoffhurst must return to the past, and to the unspeakable events that transformed his life eight years ago. In the long, hot, asphalt-melting summer of 1976, Geoffhursts life was happily full of superheroes. There was his six-foot mother, the most glamorous woman in the neighborhood; his aunt, a witch; his gang the Four Aces; and of course, his father Sonny, one of the first black professional soccer players in England. Frustrated by the racial taunts hes endured on-field and off, Sonny snapped, bringing Geoffhursts childhood to a close on the very same day that the heat wave broke in a massive thunderstorm. Rendered with blazing lyricism, and shifting between Geoffhursts Technicolor nostalgia and his aunts Caribbean-inflected English, 'Lazy Eye' is a brilliant account of the last moments before a man loses control.
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Racial tensions and the plight of immigrant life in 1970s England create the backdrop for the story of a soccer players act of violence that will haunt his son for years to come. At nineteen, Geoffhurst is getting along just fine. He has his own flat away from his family, eight jars to divide his weekly pay, and a standing order at Madame Wongs Chinese Restaurant. But when a reporter offers to pay him handsomely to tell his story, Geoffhurst must return to the past, and to the unspeakable events that transformed his life eight years ago. In the long, hot, asphalt-melting summer of 1976, Geoffhursts life was happily full of superheroes. There was his six-foot mother, the most glamorous woman in the neighborhood; his aunt, a witch; his gang the Four Aces; and of course, his father Sonny, one of the first black professional soccer players in England. Frustrated by the racial taunts hes endured on-field and off, Sonny snapped, bringing Geoffhursts childhood to a close on the very same day that the heat wave broke in a massive thunderstorm. Rendered with blazing lyricism, and shifting between Geoffhursts Technicolor nostalgia and his aunts Caribbean-inflected English, 'Lazy Eye' is a brilliant account of the last moments before a man loses control.

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