The Moves Make the Man: A Novel - Brossura

Brooks, Bruce

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0064470229 ISBN 13: 9780064470223

Casa editrice: Harperteen, 1987

Riassunto

First time I saw Bix was at a baseball game. He was a shortstop, supreme. I didn't want to start liking this flashy cracker with a momma in a high-style black dress. But Bix got me, baby. Next thing I knew, there I was, Jerome Foxworthy, doing hoops privately in the woods and getting my moves down, when Bix showed up. I taught him all I knew-- even though he wanted to play everything straight, not fake it. Because he had one game coming up where he'd need all the moves to put his life together again ...

-- The Jayfox

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L'autore:

Bruce Brooks was born in Virginia and began writing fiction at age ten. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and from the University Of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1980. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, newsletter editor, movie critic, teacher and lecturer.

Bruce Brooks has twice received the Newbery Honor, first in 1985 for Moves Make the Man, and again in 1992 for What Hearts. He is also the author of Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, and Throwing Smoke. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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• Editore: Harperteen
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0064470229
• ISBN 13: 9780064470223
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 252