Format:
Book
Title:
Playing for pizza : a novel / John Grisham.
Author:
Grisham, John.
Call Number:
GRISHAM
Edition:
Dell mass market [premium] ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Dell, 2012, ©2007.
Description:
308 pages ; 20 cm
Summary:
After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL, third-string quarterback Rick Dockery becomes a national laughingstock. Cut by the Cleveland Browns, and shunned by every other team, Rick insists that his agent find a team that "does" need him. Against enormous odds, Rick lands a job--as the "starting "quarterback for the Mighty Panthers ... of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers desperately want a former NFL player--any former NFL player--at their helm. And now they've got Rick, who knows nothing about Parma (not even where it is) and doesn't speak a word of Italian. To say that Italy--the land of fine wines, extremely small cars, and "football americano"--Holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement.
Subjects:
Quarterbacks (Football) -- Fiction.
Americans -- Italy -- Parma -- Fiction.
Sports stories.
Football stories.
Parma (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780345532053
0345532058