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Under a Basketball Moon

Perry Ashe

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Primedia eLaunch LLC
25 December 2020
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: A GEECHEE boy's tale

Under a Basketball Moon is the coming of age story of Skip walker, the first coach to take a black college team to the NCAA Final Four. Born in the 1960's during the Hippie revolution, growing up during the school desegregation era in the regentrifying city of Charleston, South Carolina, now likely the world's top tourist destination, in his diaries, Skip, a video gamer of some repute, takes us on a wild ride that ends with the inauguration of the first black president of the United States.

Skip's wife and childhood sweetheart, Veronica Browning Walker, likely the highest compensated labor arbitration is an integral character, her son and wards being student-athletes subject to the NCAA's draconian rules when it comes to players sharing in the economic largesse provided to college athletics by the advent of TV, cable advertising money and revenue from sneaker and jersey sales.

Cameos by three POTUS' and a host of other celebrities, Under a Basketball Moon is a hilarious Alice in Wonderland influenced, Forrest Gump-like tale whose ending may have implications on the real world of college sports.

Male bonding- the masculine principle of one-upmanship, women always getting their man, and the intersection of amateurism and money are constant themes in Under a Basketball Moon, a Charleston novel after all that could be called 'North of Broad'. Heavily influenced by Thomas Wolfe's 'A MAN IN FULL', Phillip Roth's 'THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL', and Lewis Carrol's 'ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
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Imprint:   Primedia eLaunch LLC
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   399g
ISBN:   9781637605059
ISBN 10:   1637605056
Pages:   298
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Under a Basketball Moon

"""But the most powerful and successfully executed parts of the story revolve around the author's gritty, weirdly eloquent, and unfailingly thrilling depictions of BIG-TIME college basketball- the coaches and athletic directors, the money people and the fans, and especially the players. The narrative is thick with jazzy dialogue and sparkling character descriptions. The narrator, Skip Walker, the first coach to take a black college team to the NCAA Final Four, varies the sports talk with generous and often very funny digressions about his extended circle of family and friends. A raucous, off-kilter, and sometimes steamy tale about victories on an off the basketball court."" KIRKUS REVIEWS ""... a delightful read."" READER'S FAVORITE"


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