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Plot Summary of Full Time - The secret life of Tony Cascarino
"Tony Cascarino, an average soccer player tells his story as a a kind of confessional for his two children to read and hopefully understand the reasons behind his divorce and re-marriage. "
Alex Wolstenholme, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Family, hate Yes
Struggle with: - Wife
Sports story? - soccer
Sports story Yes
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - sports figure
Age: - 40's-50's
Biography of famous person? Yes
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - Irish/McCourt
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - very athletic

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK - France - Ireland
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards
Writer's slant towards subject: - favorable
Story of entire life, or part? - story of nearly entire life
Autobiography? Yes
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices? Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life? Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 26-50% of book
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