Publisher's Synopsis
THE AUSSIE RULES FOOTBALL BOOK: BY PAUL SMITH THE GREATEST GAME unites sport, comedy and romance with a 'lost in the wilderness' adventure. It is the story of a clash of rival codes of football (Australian and American), two sets of lovers and two cultures: the most ancient and modern. It takes up the challenge to discover... what is The Greatest Game? It is spectacular, hilarious, sexy, fast-paced and full of surprises and witty conversations. Get to know the innocent (American) youth abroad, the tough Irishman, the down-to-earth beautiful Australian female, the over-the-top sexy Southern belle and her millionaire father and the wise old aborigine, his loving grandson and many others in novel that spans 50,000 years and two continents. Who will finish up in bed with whom? What happened to the ten lost Australian Rules football players in the wilds of Tasmania that was so outrageous that they took an oath in blood never to reveal it? Who invented The Greatest Game and who kicked the greatest winning goal? What is THE GREATEST GAME? Novel & Screenplay. THE MARK: The Australian Game: A Doco-Drama for Television. A football flies through the air, in slow-motion - Jimmy's hands and face come into view as he catches the ball and cries 'mark'! In the back alley Jimmy falls to the ground, rolls over clutching the ball and bumps into a pair of legs. He looks up and sees his Grandpa Stan staring down at him. The Rooneys are a typical battling Melbourne family...their lives revolve around work and the struggle to survive in these unsettling times...a struggle made bearable through religion (Australian Rules Football). Their lives and love of this great game form the basis for this intriguing series blending:1. The contemporary life of the Rooneys during an A.F.L. season. 2. The historical drama of the family from the eighteen hundreds.3. Documentary footage, interviews and re-enactments to tell the fascinating story of Australian Rules Football and the concurrent development of Australian culture and character. A contemporary and historical drama showing the evolution of Australia for the past 160 years and of a typical Australian family and the tribal game as played by aborigines prior to the arrival of the white settlers to the fast, furious, big business sport that it is today. Pages 437 Paul Smith is a poet, author and translator of many books of Sufi poets of the Persian, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Pashtu and other languages... including Hafiz, Sadi, Nizami, Rumi, 'Attar, Sana'i, Jahan Khatun, Obeyd Zakani, Mu'in, Amir Khusrau, Nesimi, Kabir, Anvari, Ansari, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Rudaki, Yunus Emre, Mahsati, Lalla Ded, Bulleh Shah, Shah Latif, Makhfi and many others, as well as his own poetry, fiction, plays, biographies, children's books and a dozen screenplays. amazon.com/author/smithpa Published by New Humanity Books
