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stephb413's review
4.0
A timeless book about basketball..... and so much more. Within the pages a group of outcasts find a family and home and two friends' relationship allows them to travel life's uncertain road towards a goal. This book would be a perfect read for so many of my high school athletes who would normally not be big readers. Very worthwhile.
moodybookseller's review
4.0
Gritty but sweet-toned fable about an interesting group of characters in the Bay Area, circa mid-seventies. Well-told in an efficient and spare style with a knowing and humane intelligence driving it all. (For some reason it felt like, in a good way, one of those classic young adult novels from the same time period but, obviously, dealing with more adult subject matter. Still trying to suss this thought out.) A quick and very satisfying read. Inspired what is supposed to be a fine film version.
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