Point Guard

Ashland was a sleepy little farm community in Illinois, it was the place where he had been born. Gary wasn't treated like a new kid at all; he was a wayward friend who'd finally returned home. Everything began to click with his new coach and teammates.

At a time for hot rods, tiny Nash Ramblers, and long black hearses, Elvis had the top hits on radio and the juke boxes. Magically, all the dreams for the purple and white Ashland Panthers basketball team began to come true. Point Guard is the story of how it happened way back in 1957.

Author Bio: Victor Pearn is the author of seven poetry books and his most recent poetry book is Cryptozoology Poems. He served in the USMC as a radio repairman from 1969 to 1972. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, and he earned his Master's Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Colorado. He received the University of Colorado Poetry Award in 1984. He was nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1994, 2001 and 2003. He has four daughters and three granddaughters. He resides in Boulder, Colorado and Point Guard is his first novel.