Hormone Wars

A. Craig Copetas

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    HarperCollins, 202 pp, £14.99, March 1992, ISBN 0 00 223943 4
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    HarperCollins, 368 pp, £18.50, July 1991, ISBN 0 00 215172 3

A few hours before the Washington Redskins consummately humiliated the Buffalo Bills in the 1992 Superbowl, I unfortunately asked a fellow American, an editor who has lived in Paris for ten years, to join a group of men and women for a beer, place a few bets, and watch the game with us live on Canal+. ‘Football is a most distasteful sport,’ sneered the American expatriate. ‘The game has no place in my life.’

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