Product Description
Deep Pockets: Snooker and the Meaning of Life Paperback – 21 Mar. 2024
by Brendan Cooper (Author)
SpecificationsPublisher : Constable
Publication date : 21 Mar. 2024
Language : English
Print length : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 1408717794
ISBN-13 : 978-1408717790
Item weight : 1.05 kg
Dimensions : 12.7 x 2.79 x 19.56 cm
Sample
The game of snooker has a remarkable history. From humble origins, it blossomed spectacularly in the 1980s into the nation's most popular sport. Top players became celebrities. The papers were stuffed with snooker scandals. It even conquered the pop charts.
In the twenty-first century, the game is still big news. Along with millions of British fans, a vast audience continues to grow across every corner of the world, from Europe to the Middle East to China. The global thirst for snooker has never been greater.
But - strangely perhaps - snooker's deeper meanings have rarely been explored. It is a game that celebrates subtlety and mystery; a slow undertaking in a fast-paced world. Elegant and profound, snooker invites serious contemplation.
Deep Pockets is a study of this uncharted territory - a love letter to snooker, and an impassioned journey into its soul. Because snooker, in fact, is more than a game. It is a belief set; a way of seeing; an entire philosophical system. In chapters that cover everything from time, truth, loss, luck and more, Deep Pockets explores how snooker can help us to trace the meaning of life itself
