Big Man

by Jay Neugeboren

Book Overview

In 1951, sport and greed combined to rock college basketball with scandal and shatter the lives of those involved. Big Mantells the fictional story of one player sent tumbling in the shakedown. For Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star, the point-fixing scandals represent the end of a dream. Fallen from the big time, Mack must return to the lost schoolyards of his childhood Brooklyn neighborhood, where he is now stopped cold by the sport...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061807922X
• ISBN13: 9780618079223
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Honest, brisk, affecting

I had looked for this novel for close to 10 years, after reading Mr. Neugeboren's baseball classic, 'Sam's Legacy.' This was well worth the wait. Any basketball fan will enjoy this always compelling, and often moving book which manages to blend vivid basketball scenes with a penetrating perpective on an athlete's interior. I hope that this signals the coming of more Neugeboren novels into print.