Barney Polan's Game A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals Hardback - 1997
by Charles Rosen; Charles Rosen
One of America's foremost basketball novelists takes on the legendary point-shaving scandals of early 1950's college basketball. The book is based in fact but tells the story from a human perspective, weighing the issues of character and morality as only a novel can.
First line
God, I love my paunch, all this beautiful pink flesh, solid and undeniable.
From the rear cover
Rosen's new book, Barney Polan's Game, is a fictional account of the college basketball scandals of 1950-51, when players, coaches, bookies, and gangsters conspired to fix the outcomes of games. Their exposure affected the basketball world the same way the 1919 Black Sox scandal affected baseball. For all sports fans, the game was irrevocably corrupted by power and big money. Each principal character in Barney Polan's Game speaks directly to the reader, giving his or her perspective as events unfold. The most prominent voice is that of Barney Polan himself - the veteran sportswriter. Dubbed the "verse of the peepul" by a colleague, he borrows from Shakespeare and Brooklynese for his columns in The Brooklyn Sentinel. Each of the characters - coaches, bookies, players, family members - desperately tries to control the uncertain events around them in whatever way he or she can. Unsettling aspects of postwar America loom in the background: racism, class injustice, fears of nuclear annihilation, and the McCarthy hearings.
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- Title Barney Polan's Game A Novel of the 1951 College Basketball Scandals
- Author Charles Rosen; Charles Rosen
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 336
- Language EN
- Publisher Seven Stories Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date December 1997
- ISBN 9781888363562
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 02/15/1998, Page 984
- Library Journal, 02/15/1998, Page 172
- New York Times, 02/15/1998, Page 11
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1999, Page 65
- Publishers Weekly, 01/19/1998, Page 372
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