- Teenage boys, Teenage boys in fiction, College athletes, Recruiting
A novel on Willy Keeler, a high-school football hero in Texas. A naive sort, Keeler is introduced to the gritty side of life by Ramona, a sexy older woman with underworld connections
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Classical in form, unpretentious, grave and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Mitch Cullin
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 197
- Publisher
- Scribner, Permanent Press, The Permanent Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781579620233
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“I know some things.”
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