The House of Moses All-Stars: A Novel

基本信息出版社:Seven Stories Press (2012年5月1日)平装:496页正文语种:英语ISBN:160980371X条形码:9781609803711商品重量:494 gASIN:160980371X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?

商品描述内容简介Here is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel,The House of Moses All-Starsis also a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. Charley Rosen gives us basketball as a metaphor for life.

Aaron Steiner, the protagonist ofThe House of Moses All-Stars, is a man very close to the edge. The former college basketball star has watched his dreams of being a successful player fall apart, his marriage disintegrate, and his baby die. In desperation he accepts his friend’s offer to join a Jewish professional basketball team—The House of Moses All-Stars—which is traveling on a cross-country tour in a renovated hearse. Aaron’s teammates—a Communist, a Zionist, a former bank robber, and a red-headed Irishman who passes for a Jew—are, like Aaron, trying to escape their own troubled pasts. As the members of this motley crew travel west to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover a nation grappling with social and economic collapse and fear of foreigners, in conflict with its own democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye,The House of Moses All-Starslooks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America.作者简介CHARLEY ROSEN is a commentator, analyst, author, and all around pro basketball presence. He played for Hunter College and spent many years coaching. He is an analyst for nba.com and hoopshype.com and is the author of theNew York Timesbestseller,More Than A Gamewith Phil Jackson. He has written over 100 pieces for publications such as theNew York Times Book Review,Penthouse,Sport,InsideSports, andM. He lives in Accord, New York.