- Fiction, Football players, Loss (Psychology), Married people
"Gavin Grey is a star running back at the University of North Carolina in the 1950s. He graces the covers of Time and Life and grows accustomed to hearing adoring fans shout out his nickname - The Grey Ghost - as he walks by."
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Frank Deford
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press, Viking Press, Signet
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670300358
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Editor of Sports Illustrated magazine and long-time commentator on National Public Radio. He wrote many sports-related books and a highly regarded memoir about his daughter, who died from cystic fibrosis.
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