Touchdown: Roman (German Edition)
John Grisham einmal anders – ein Amerikaner entdeckt seine italienische SeeleEinst umjubelter Football-Star steht Rick Dockery plötzlich vor dem Aus. Ein Angebot aus dem fernen Italien kommt wie gelegen: Die Parma Panthers suchen einen neuen Spielmacher. Rick zögert nicht, und aus der Reise ins...
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John Grisham einmal anders – ein Amerikaner entdeckt seine italienische SeeleEinst umjubelter Football-Star steht Rick Dockery plötzlich vor dem Aus. Ein Angebot aus dem fernen Italien kommt wie gelegen: Die Parma Panthers suchen einen neuen Spielmacher. Rick zögert nicht, und aus der Reise ins Ungewisse wird die Reise in ein neues Leben.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9783641110314
Publish date: March 18th 2013
Publisher: Heyne Verlag
Pages no: 352
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...
10 years ago
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