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Ex-jock sportswriter Al Biederman, mired in a midwestern college town, dreaming of glories past and a fantasy future, finds hope and then a moral dilemma in Belvyn Menkus, a basketball phenomenon involved in a recruiting scandal
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"[Heroes is] that rare thing, a really good sports novel that did with basketball what Mark Harris or Bernard Malamud did with baseball: make the passion, pull and mythological grace of the game integral to the characters."-Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune "A generous novel about those two great American preoccupations, Lost Innocence and Sports."-Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Inquirer "Like a good point guard, Mr. Shields knows how to control the flow of a game."-New York Times Book Review New York Times Book Review
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David Shields is the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity, and Dead Languages: A Novel. Ira Berkow is a sports columnist for the New York Times and the author of To the Hoop: Seasons of a Basketball Life and Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball.
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- PublisherDell Pub Co
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0440201799
- ISBN 13 9780440201793
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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