Heroes - Hardcover

Shields, David

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671525646 ISBN 13: 9780671525644

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1984

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Ex-jock sportswriter Al Biederman, mired in a midwestern college town, dreaming of glories past and a fantasy future, finds hope and then a moral dilemma in Belvyn Menkus, a basketball phenomenon involved in a recruiting scandal

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In his introduction, former New York Times sports columnist Ira Berkow notes that Heroes "goes beyond the bounds" of its surface subject: "from a good seat and perspective in the press box," the novel tells its reader about the dynamic of watching the action rather than participating in it. The aging Biederman can no longer grasp the transcendence basketball once provided him. Yet he still pursues it through his reporting and the figure of a lone inner-city star who appears to provide what one reviewer called "proof that there still is purity, perfection, transcendence in the world." Biederman's hope is for Menkus to give him a release from "regular time" and his modest life. By focusing on Biederman's pursuit, Heroes probes the larger issue of whether we can use vicariousness to infuse the workaday world with new significance. It also shows us how to continue drawing significance from ordinary life if and when that transcendence fails to emerge.

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"Heroes is the only literate fiction ever written about basketball. I enjoyed it very much."--W.P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe

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