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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press

ISBN-100817312420

ISBN-139780817312428

eBay Product ID (ePID)2325369

Product Key Features

Book TitleForever Season

Number of Pages284 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicGeneral

FeaturesReprint

GenreFiction

AuthorDon Keith

Book SeriesDeep South Bks.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-021762

Reviews"This is the kind of book you simply will not put down until the end . . . with one of the most gut-wrenching and stunning conclusions that I have ever read." Birmingham Post-Herald, "This is the kind of book you simply will not put down until the end . . . with one of the most gut-wrenching and stunning conclusions that I have ever read." - Birmingham Post-Herald, "This is the kind of book you simply will not put down until the end . . . with one of the most gut-wrenching and stunning conclusions that I have ever read." #8212 Birmingham Post-Herald

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionReprint

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

LC Classification NumberPS3561.E37586F67