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Kincaid creates a large cast of interesting women by switching point of view from one chapter to the next. Her exacting dialogue allows half-joking responses, subtle revelations, and layers of unspoken subtext to shape each character. What happens when the smart, beautiful, rich homecoming princess succumbs to the passion of backseat love and marries the poor star quarterback? Pretty much what you'd expect. "Sometimes I tried to believe the ball was love, truth, or beauty so that I could look at the game, and the men playing it, differently, as if it ... would make the life I was living something worth devoting myself to." But Kincaid has devised a trick play, using stereotype as a trap to lure the reader into an intriguing study of the frailties of human behavior, the restraints on women in a male-dominated culture, and the fascinating ways people change over time as age and experience join to forge wisdom. --George Laney
You might say that Balls is the story of a coach's kick-off, his first, second, and third downs...and his punt. But this coach's story belongs to the coach's wife, Dixie Gibbs, and to his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, his assistants' wives, his players' mothers, girlfriends, and grandmothers. It's the women standing behind handsome Coach Mac Gibbs who know--and tell--the secrets the sports page headlines leave out.
These women talk straight. They don't care much for the "science" of the game--or its brutality. They wince at the injuries, both physical and spiritual. They swear at the press and bristle at the fickleness of the fans. They see football as it really is--sexy, dirty, sweaty, painful, empowering, tainted. And the spin they put on the whole enterprise is ironic, often funny, and not always pretty, as the view from deep inside rarely is.
This is a novel that moves with the force of a fourth-down charge and shimmers with the tears of the women waiting outside the locker room when the big games are lost. If balls is another word for courage, then often it's the women off the field who come to understand that best. Balls is the novel every football widow will want to read.
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