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"Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing."

Vince Lombardi

My Notebook

Return to the book list for titles beginning with 'M'.

Eric Cantona, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2017

Any book by the originator of the phrase “When seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea” will not be convention. The book consists of over 100 pages (pages are not numbered) of sketches with a caption in English and French.

Examples include

When I grow up I will be a liar

A staircase to marriage

Faster than his shadow

The road is long

The woman who preferred trees to mushrooms

Faith is referred to a few times such as in the following:

and

According to the publisher’s press release, the drawings are in a “faux-naïve style” – so now you know! And according to the same press release "the drawings and musings are as funny as they are poetic and philosophical”.



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