À revers

von Florent Dabadie

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Both investigation and coming of age novel, Backhanded takes us inside the brutal world of high-level sports. Between parental ambitions, sacrificed youth and the slippery slide into illegality, we discover the implacable mechanisms of a fascinating world. In Paris in the early twenty tens, a sports journalist and specialist in doping, knows a bit too much and can no longer tolerate the omerta that rules over the world of tennis: because it is haughtily considered an art form more than a sport, everyone, all the way to the top, pretends that tennis is exempt from doping while the entire sport is now infested.When Fred notices Masha, age 14, daughter of Ukrainian immigrants and a young tennis champion who is a bit too lucky, he is certain she is doped. He decides to undertake a fast-paced investigation to the source of the problem and shatter the silence surrounding doping in the world of tennis.In this story, everything is dysfunctional: parents behave like children and children are forced to become adults. A chilling foray into one of the greatest plagues of contemporary sports..

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9782709662444
• Sprache: Französisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2024
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Editions Jc Lattes