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The House of Moses All-Stars Hardback - 1996

by Charley Rosen

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This bittersweet comic novel follows the House of Moses All-Stars--a third-rate Jewish basketball team--as it crosses the country seeking hope, redemption, and a winning season. Charlie Rosen is also the author of Have Jump Shot-Will Travel, which was nominated for the National Book Award.

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A New York Times Notable Book

Here is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is also a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. Charley Rosen gives us basketball as a metaphor for life.

Aaron Steiner, the protagonist of The House of Moses All-Stars, is a man very close to the edge. The former college basketball star has watched his dreams of being a successful player fall apart, his marriage disintegrate, and his baby die. In desperation he accepts his friend's offer to join a Jewish professional basketball team--The House of Moses All-Stars--which is traveling on a cross-country tour in a renovated hearse. Aaron's teammates--a Communist, a Zionist, a former bank robber, and a red-headed Irishman who passes for a Jew--are, like Aaron, trying to escape their own troubled pasts. As the members of this motley crew travel west to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover a nation grappling with social and economic collapse and fear of foreigners, in conflict with its own democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, The House of Moses All-Stars looks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America.

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Here is the story of an all-Jewish basketball team traveling in a hearse through Depression-era America in search of redemption and big money. A hilarious road novel, The House of Moses All-Stars is also a passionate portrayal of a young Jewish man struggling to realize his dreams in a country struggling to recover its ideals. Charley Rosen gives us basketball as a metaphor for life. As the members of this motley crew travel west to California through an anti-Semitic land that disdains and rebuffs them, they discover that their nation is as confused as they are - torn between its fears of foreigners and poverty, and its belief in democratic ideals of tolerance and opportunity. Told with a rueful eye, The House of Moses All-Stars looks critically and lovingly at what it means to be an outsider in America.

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  • Title The House of Moses All-Stars
  • Author Charley Rosen
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York
  • Publication date 1996-11-05
  • ISBN 9781888363333 / 1888363339
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.55 in (21.84 x 14.73 x 3.94 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96030235
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 12/15/1996, Page 710
  • Library Journal, 12/01/1996, Page 147
  • New York Times, 12/15/1996, Page 13
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1997, Page 62
  • Publishers Weekly, 11/04/1996, Page 65

About the author

A native of the Bronx and longtime pal of basketball guru Phil Jackson, CHARLEY ROSEN led the league in technical fouls during each of his six years as a coach in the now-defunct Continental Basketball Association. Since then he has become the world's foremost writer of fiction and nonfiction on the subject of basketball, chronicling the drama that takes place both on and off the court. His many novels include The House of Moses All-Stars, a New York Times Notable Book, and Sammy Wong: All-American. His non-fiction works include The Scandals of '51: How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball and More than a Game, with Phil Jackson. Rosen is an analyst for hoopshype.com and a devotee of the Triangle Offense. He lives in Accord, NY.
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