What happens when a baby is abandoned in the richest country in the world? Five college students are about to find out.With a theme from Dickens, a narrative technique from Faulkner, and a diverse cast of characters from the gritty, All-American city of Stockton, California, A Child Left Behind invites readers to consider the humanitarian crises right under our noses, even while CNN shows us those at our borders and around the world. Tackling a new topic with the same "inherently compelling...memorably irreverent" (Midwest Book Review) style of his previous novels, Phil Hutcheon has crafted another "hilariously inappropriate" (Kirkus Reviews) contemporary tale.

A Child Left Behind

Romance

Hutcheon, Phil

Paranormal

Tokay Press

A sex scandal, a pair of shootings, and internal racism complicate an obscure college football team's quest for an epic bowl game victory. Black alumnus/entrepreneur Arthur Allenby and white counselor Malcolm Wade, introduced in Phil Hutcheon's NOBODY ROOTS FOR GOLIATH, rejoin forces to help the CSU team to face these and other obstacles while struggling to salvage their own embattled romantic relationships. DESPERATION PASSES celebrates interracial friendships and emerging leadership opportunities for African Americans but ridicules the hypocrisy of university administrators who overpay opportunistic head coaches while ignoring the academic deficiencies of student-athletes. Readers of Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta will revel in this allusive, racy romp, tinged with tragedy but loaded with laughs, not just for football fans, but for anyone who has butted heads with brain-dead bureaucrats or survived a heartbreak and carried a torch.

Desperation Passes (Malcolm Wade)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Mudville Nine Books

masterfully intertwines the lives of two men from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds ? connected through their love of baseball.

Where Triples Go To Die

Rooting for Goliath (Malcolm Wade)

Nobody Roots for Goliath is a comic novel about Marvin Walker, a seven foot six inch, nearly illiterate basketball prodigy and Wade, the depressed, neurotic English Professor who befriends him. Can the unlikely bond between these two transcend their differences of age, race and economic expectation? Complications abound as the worlds of academia and athletics collide in this irreverent novel of contemporary college life.

Nobody Roots for Goliath

United States

Willowgate Pr

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