by Brian Moore · Simon & Schuster Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781847396518
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«Beware of the Dog: Rugby's Hard Man Reveals All» is the sports autobiography of Brian Moore, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback, 352 pages.
Brian Moore, 'Pitbull', reviews his career as a cornerstone of the England rugby team's front row and his later stage as a commentator. With frankness, he alternates hard episodes of his personal and professional life with unusual facets: a lawyer by profession, wine enthusiast, manicurist and reader of Shakespeare before matches.
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2010 award. Brian Moore was capped 64 times by England and played in three Rugby World Cups. Text in English.
Recommended for rugby fans and sports biography readers, with an interest in the amateur era of English rugby.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
