Losing Is Not an Option
Published on 4. February 2009
144 pages
978-0-307-55757-5 (ISBN)
Description
Ron is watcher, it seems. He watches his pick-up basketball team-five guys trying to fit together on the court. He watches Dawn on the dance floor, and that tiny star tattoo on her shoulder. He watches Darby run, her short legs all sweat and muscle. He watches his friends veer off-and up-into popularity. He watches his dad move in with his grandmother and make do. But he's more than a watcher: He's a hustler on the court, a free-thrower, a poet, a poker player, a rule breaker, a loving grandson, a runner, and a ruthless competitor in those eight laps around the track-the 3200 meter. In nine interwoven stories, award-winning author Rich Wallace brings a small-town high school to life through the sharp, spare voice-and the heart-pounding defeats and triumphs-of an athlete.
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Wallace Rich
Losing is Not an Option
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11/2005
Bantam Books
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Losing Is Not an Option
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08/2003
Alfred A. Knopf
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Losing Is Not an Option
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Alfred A. Knopf
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Rich Wallace is the author of three other books set in Sturbridge, Pennsylvania: Wrestling Sturbridge, an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults; Shots on Goal; and Playing Without the Ball.
Content
- Intro
- Also Available from Laurel-Leaf Books
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Night Game
- Nailed
- The Amazing Two-Headed Boy
- I Voted for Mary Ann
- In Letters That Would Soar a Thousand Feet High
- What It All Goes Back To
- Dawn
- Thanksgiving
- Losing Is Not an Option
