Whilst reading Unseen Academicals I couldn’t help thinking about (and you’ll have to bear with me on this) the American TV series The Wire. The match itself forms the climax of the story, bringing the various strands together. The third strand follows the internal political wranglings of the Unseen University as the wizards venture out of their ivory towers to compete (without magic) in the football match. Nutt turns out to be, not only a natural football trainer, but also a natural leader of men. The second strand follows the story of Mr Nutt, the enigmatic hero of the novel, who turns out to be an orc, a race of violent but misunderstood semi-mythological creatures.
The first strand follows the development of the rules and customs of football from the chanting of the fans to the invention of the ball itself. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go! We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK.Unseen Academicals is formed from three interlinked plot strands. Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too).
And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork - not the old fashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. A brand new unopened and unread 1st edition 1st printing hardback copy of Discworld novel 37, with full number run.
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