North Dallas Forty - Softcover

Gent, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894963024 ISBN 13: 9781894963022

Publisher: NATIONAL BOOK + NETWORK/NBN, 2003

Synopsis

The story of eight harrowing days in the chaotic life of a professional football player, North Dallas Forty, originally published in 1973, exposes an NFL rife with corruption, drugs, sex, and violence. His body already racked with multiple injuries, Phil Elliot (played by Nick Nolte in the major film of 1978) is a cynical tight end hooked on painkillers and other mind-altering substances who must choose between enduring abuse by crazed coaches and depraved teammates or giving up his dreams of glory. This graphic story explores the disturbing relationship between violence in the football stadium and violence in American culture itself. "[Gent] balances shock with humor, irony with warmth, detail with insight, and ends up with a book that easily transcends its subject matter." - Dick Schaap, ESPN

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This follow-up to North Dallas Forty features many of the original characters and describes their lives after football, emphasizing corruption, murder and drugs. "Gent uses a series of flashbacks expertly . . . but his farfetched story is too improbable to work and is helped not at all by an ending as jarring and disconcerting as an official's flag cancelling out a spectacular touchdown play," lamented PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: NATIONAL BOOK + NETWORK/NBN
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1894963024
• ISBN 13: 9781894963022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314