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Title: Rough & Tumble: A Novel
ISBN: 0312375743
Author:
Mark Bavaro
Publicate Date: 2008-09-02
Publish: 2008-09-02
List Price: $24.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Realistic look into the NFL's dark side.
Bavaro writes as well as he played the game. Novel is well written and hard to put down once you started to read it. Very realistic, even better than "North Dallas Forty", but then I'm a Giant fan.
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2: thrilling but dark look at the NFL
New York Giants tight end Dominic Fucillo is having a tough season while his mates are on a roll that he hopes will leave him with a Superbowl ring. The Commissioner fines Dominic $50,000 for attacking a referee during the Eagles loss and his girlfriend will not talk to him. These are minor inconveniences when compared to the team physician telling him his once blown out knee has a hole in it requiring post season surgery. Dominic understands the knife will occur after the season ends just like he knows this time his career will be over with the needed operation.
However, Dominic's final run to glory is hampered by the team's superstar drug using linebacker James Moze. He was recently beaten to a pulp by either gamblers who he hangs with or drug peddlers. As the team begins a victorious march towards the playoffs, every form of human lice converges with demands on the Giants.
Although not new as football exposure stories have been around for years, former great tight end Mark Bavaro provides a thrilling but dark look at the NFL. The eccentric cast makes the story line engaging especially for football fans as the audience obtains a deep look at what happens behind the scene to a professional football team especially when they make a strong run for the championship.
Harriet Klausner
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3: Bravo, Mr. Bavaro!
More than just a football story, it's a journey of a man, loving and breathing the only life he knows, who is trying to make sense of his world (and how he relates to it) as it shifts and turns and crumbles.
This novel enlightens even the non-football persona (like myself), who is curious to understand the psychology of anything not inately understood, while couched in a fictional setting. It's a real eye-opener to the sacrifices and struggles endured. Although fictitious (yes, it reads like a real life story, hence the argument between what's referred to as "artistic license" and what some true sports enthusiasts may find unrealistic), it makes for very compelling reading. I couldn't put the book down.
Through well-written story-telling (in layman's terms for folks like me! Thank you!), vivid characters, and character development, we come to appreciate the emotional dynamics off the field, and understand the toll of physical brutality on it, in the name of a singular, hard-driven goal (I will never take bed sheets for granted again! -- you'll see what I mean, if you read it!).
A wonderful story, from beginning to end. Bravo, Mr. Bavaro! I'm looking forward to your next novel!
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4: Trader56
As good as sports book that I have read in years. If you ever played football at any level you will appreciate how descriptive the scenes are. It also is very humorous, uses colorful but real life language, and at times hits on heavy topics like alcohol use, gambling, abortion, and ethics in the medical profession. For a first time author this book is unbelievably impressive. Well done Mark!
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5: Superb
As a longtime book reviewer, book editor and copyeditor, a mystery-lover and a fervent football fan, I recommend "Rough & Tumble" unreservedly. This one is definitely in the don't-miss category, a well-written, fast, entertaining book that puts the reader on the 10-yard-line along with the players. I doubt that those outside the arena will be able to view a football game in the same way after reading this book. I hope Hollywood takes note, and does right by it.
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