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Racial tensions and the plight of immigrant life in 1970s England create thebackdrop for the story of a soccer players act of violence that will haunt hisson for years to come. At nineteen Geoffhurst is getting along just fine. Hehas his own flat away from his family eight jars to divide his weekly pay anda standing order at Madame Wongs Chinese Restaurant. But when a reporteroffers to pay him handsomely to tell his story Geoffhurst must return to thepast and to the unspeakable events that transformed his life eight years ago.In the long hot asphaltmelting summer of 1976 Geoffhursts life was happilyfull of superheroes. There was his sixfoot mother the most glamorous woman inthe neighborhood his aunt a witch his gang the Four Aces and of course hisfather Sonny one of the first black professional soccer players in England.Frustrated by the racial taunts hes endured onfield and off Sonny snappedbringing Geoffhursts childhood to a close on the very same day that the heatwave broke in a massive thunderstorm. Rendered with blazing lyricism andshifting between Geoffhursts Technicolor nostalgia and his aunts Caribbeaninflected English Lazy Eye is a brilliant account of the last moments before aman loses control. «
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