The Forever Season

ISBN-13: 9780817312428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 284 str.

Don Keith

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This tale of youth and the immutable forces of society arrayed against its innocence and optimism has been called the best football novel in years.

I died exactly the way I lived. So begins the astonishing story of C. P. (Corinthians Phillipians) McKay, a star football player and passionate student who loves poetry. C. P. is a young man who appears to have everything going for him. But his downfall begins when he receives a scholarship to a major university. There, he finds his dream blocked from all directions by a ruthless coach, an unethical university president, and a cynical professor as he attempts to play the game he loves, satisfy his desire for knowledge, and guard his integrity.

Said to rival John Grisham s" A Time to Kill" among debut novels, "The Forever Season" was first published by St. Martin s Press in 1995. "Bookpage" proclaimed, It is so much more than a sports story. . . . As understated and as clearly written as the better work of Erskine Caldwell. And as shocking "The Chattanooga Free Press "described it as a fast-paced, funny and poignant look at coming of age with] vivid characters and] well-drawn witty prose that] will engage readers who don t know a clip from a couplet.

In "The Forever Season," Don Keith writes with a concise, hard-edged pen about a subject he knows well the South, its trailer park culture, and its passion for gridiron glory while exploring universal themes of fumbling youth and innocence lost.
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