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Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid

A sportswriter recounts his adolescent obsession with televised sports through the 1980s in this witty and well-observed coming of age memoir.

In Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid, author Nige Tassell chronicles his decade-long obsession with televised sports during his teenage years in the 1980s. With nostalgia, humor, and surprising insight, Tassell chronicles his desperate navigation through TV schedules in a hopeless devotion to any sport he could find.

Tassell deftly weaves pithy observations on the changing nature of professional sports with reflections on the trials of adolescence and impending adulthood. Sweet, wise and witty, Butch Wilkins and the Sundance Kid is a love letter to a time gone by and a celebration of the way sports can transcend the screen to impact our lives.

Nige Tassell

Nige Tassell has been a journalist for more than twenty years. He has written extensively about sport for a range of titles, includingFourFourTwo, The Guardian, 220 Triathlon, The Word and BBC History. He was the editor and writer of World in Motion, chronicling the history of the England team at the World Cup, and is the author of The Bottom Corner: A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football published in 2016 by Yellow Jersey.

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