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Both Philip's physical struggles and difficulties of conscience are astutely and honestly detailed in superbly insightful work which is especially recommended to the attention of anyone interested in the history of basketball as seen through the eyes of a player on the front lines. --Midwest Book Review

""It is the kind of narrative that gives memoir a good name. A story of such honesty and humor and directness that the reader is made to feel as if he has not merely read about experience but lived through its pulse beat. It is a story that only a few individuals in America could tell this well and with the authority of such details: a coming-of-age story about facing loss and finding love; about the ugliness of racial discrimination and the necessary courage to stand against it; about basketball and dreams; about what divides us and makes us whole. It is a chronicle not only of Phil Raisor's coming of age but of America's, as well.""--Michael Pearson ""Both Philip's physical struggles and difficulties of conscience are astutely and honestly detailed in superbly insightful work which is especially recommended to the attention of anyone interested in the history of basketball as seen through the eyes of a player on the front lines.""--Midwest Book Review

It is the kind of narrative that gives memoir a good name. A story of such honesty and humor and directness that the reader is made to feel as if he has not merely read about experience but lived through its pulse beat. It is a story that only a few individuals in America could tell this well and with the authority of such details: a coming-of-age story about facing loss and finding love; about the ugliness of racial discrimination and the necessary courage to stand against it; about basketball and dreams; about what divides us and makes us whole. It is a chronicle not only of Phil Raisor's coming of age but of America's, as well. --Michael Pearson

<p> It is the kind of narrative that gives memoir a good name. A story of such honesty and humor and directness that the reader is made to feel as if he has not merely read about experience but lived through its pulse beat. It is a story that only a few individuals in America could tell this well and with the authority of such details: a coming-of-age story about facing loss and finding love; about the ugliness of racial discrimination and the necessary courage to stand against it; about basketball and dreams; about what divides us and makes us whole. It is a chronicle not only of Phil Raisor's coming of age but of America's, as well. --Michael Pearson

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Philip Raisor is Associate Professor of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the editor of Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass.

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