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Highlights
- Fall River Dreams is the story of one season's quest-a classic book about sports, youth, time, hope, and memory in America today.
- About the Author: Bill Reynolds is a sports columnist for The Providence Journal and the author of several books, including (with Rick Pitino) the #1 New York Times bestseller Success Is a Choice.
- 368 Pages
- Sports + Recreation, Basketball
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About the Book
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.Book Synopsis
Fall River Dreams is the story of one season's quest-a classic book about sports, youth, time, hope, and memory in America today.
In this deeply felt, unforgettable book, Bill Reynolds journeys with a high school basketball team through the past and present of an American town. Fall River, Massachusetts, is a once-prosperous industrial center haunted by its history. The Durfee High School basketball team begins its annual drive for a state championship: a quest that inspires and sometimes consumes kids, coaches, families, teachers, and all of Fall River.
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 ReviewAbout the Author
Bill Reynolds is a sports columnist for The Providence Journal and the author of several books, including (with Rick Pitino) the #1 New York Times bestseller Success Is a Choice. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.