The Assist
Subtitle: Hoops, Hope, and the Game of Their Lives
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: January 7, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781586484699
Subjects: Biography: sport; Basketball; Secondary School Athletic Programs; Education; Biography / Autobiography; Inspirational; General; Motivational & Inspirational; Basketball - General; Coaching - Basketball; Secondary; Boston; Massachusetts; School sports
Description: "Anyone who cares about Boston and race and hope and hoops will take heart from Neil Swidey's The Assist, in which decent kids jockey for a lucky break in a world in which decency and luck are often in short supply. Set in compact, feisty, history-haunted Charlestown, this book is a powerhouse work of literary journalism about a powerhouse basketball program and the coach who would't take no for an anwser." Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, from the bookjacket.