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Wallace, Rich

Playing without the Ball: A Novel in Four Quarters

215 pp. | Knopf | September, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-679-88672-9 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-679-98672-3 $$17.99
(2) YA When his father moves to California, seventeen-year-old Jay stays behind and rents a room above a bar, just for a shot at making the basketball team. He laments that he's "never had sex, never used drugs, never forgiven [his] mother, never been to church, and never been a basketball star," and this absorbing present-tense confessional traces his attempts to adjust his game in all of these areas.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2000

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