Description: In this lyrical, deeply-felt, unforgettable book, the author of Lost Summer, Big Hoops, and, with Rick Pitino, Born to Coach spends a season with the kids, coaches, families, teachers, and fans of the Durfee High School basketball team in Fall River, Massasschusetts--a journey through the past and present of an American town in pursuit of its lost youth and spirit. Photos.
Brief description: Bill Reynolds is a sports columnist for The Providence Journal and the author of several books, including Fall River Dreams and (with Rick Pitino) the #1 New York Times bestseller Success Is a Choice. He lives in Rhode Island.
Review Quotes:
"A beautiful blend of sweetness, pain, and truth. Basketball runs through this book like a stream of light, illuminating all it touches." --Rick Telander, author of Heaven Is a Playground
"A remarkable book, open and honest, full of the joys and the pain of growing up." --The Sporting News "Bill Reynolds is one of the best writers around, and this book is the Friday Night Lights of high school basketball." --Dan Shaughnessy, author of Ever Green "Simply a classic...every word has the ring of truth. Reminds me of Norman Mclean's Young Men and Fire." --Greg Donaldson, author of The Ville "Reynolds uncovers, in a moving and sensitive book, the desperate values of a city whose only dream is basketball glory." --James Chace, Newsday "Superbly observed and compassionately rendered, Fall River Dreams reminds us of why sports matter." --Alexander Wolff, author of Raw Recruits "Reynolds does a fine job...Fall River Dreams illustrates that sports can provide marvelous highs, but that the joy of achievement can be supplanted by the desperate needs to win-again and again and again." --The New York Times Book Review