Playing for Pizza
by:
John Grisham (author)
Rick Dockery wanted to make football history -- but not that kind of football history. Last year, as a last-minute replacement in an AFC championship game, he single-handedly blew his team's 17-point lead. Now a national laughingstock, this unemployed backup quarterback is begging for a second...
show more
Rick Dockery wanted to make football history -- but not that kind of football history. Last year, as a last-minute replacement in an AFC championship game, he single-handedly blew his team's 17-point lead. Now a national laughingstock, this unemployed backup quarterback is begging for a second chance. He finds it in unexpected ways in Parma, Italy, a place he's never heard of. A singular sports novel by fiction maestro John Grisham.
show less
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307576118 (0307576116)
Publish date: March 16th 2010
Publisher: Dell
Pages no: 264
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Social,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Suspense
If you've only read Grisham's lawyer-thrillers then this book will come as pleasant surprise. It is a crisp well-written comedy about falling in love with life. At least, life as it is sometime lived in Italy. Our hero is not a lawyer but a washed out NFL Quarterback who escapes to a season in Ita...
Playing for Pizza by John GrishamRick has woken up from his injury on the football field and has no recollection as to why he was even in the game. He had been in many football teams and didn't even register the latest one.Only 28 and he's told to retire....he is about to be served for paternity sui...
Not by any means is this a masterpiece of writing but it is a very entertaining story that has heart, humor and some of the best meals described that the characters get to enjoy that I have ever heard of and very much wish I had been able to sample some of for myself by the time the book was finishe...
20,000 people have read this book--a small town--but because it was GRISHAM, most of them were sucked in. no legalistic drama. no court room showdowns. no explication of mechanisms by which to cheat the system.hence, low ratings on GR.HOWEVER... if you don't actually like Grisham, this is the one bo...
First off, I found this novel to be a bit boring at some places. The story was intriguingly interesting but it felt like a chore rather than an enjoyment because there were so many same stories with different tour places, food talk and the general football americano. The driving incidents made me th...
Log in with Facebook 
