Balls
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BALLS is the story of a college football coach, his rise, his fall, and his fallback position. You could say BALLS is the story of a coach's kick-off, his first, second, and third downs . . . and his punt. But BALLS is a coach's story that belongs to the coach's wife. To her, and to his mother, his mother-in-law, his daughter, his assistants' wives, his players' mothers and girlfriends, and even his players' grandmothers. It's the women standing behind this handsome football hero who tell the story behind the headlines of Mac Gibbs, Birmingham University coach Catfish Bomar's star quarterback, who married Dixie Carraway, the beautiful homecoming queen. Set in Alabama, home state of the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant, BALLS is told by fifteen women and one little girl touched by Mac Gibbs's fall from fame as a college quarterback to infamy as head coach of the Birmingham University Black Bears. It's told in those women's voices, from their seats in the stands. They watch the other women, worry when players are slow to get up off the ground, pray when players are carried off on stretchers. They don't care much for the "science" of the game--or its brutality. They see football as it really is--sexy, dirty, sweaty, painful, empowering, corrupt. The story they tell is often funny and not always pretty, as the view from deep inside rarely is. This is a novel that moves with the force of a fourth down charge, and shimmers with the tears of the women waiting outside the locker-room door when the game is lost. The author, twice a head coach's wife, knows whereof she writes so brilliantly. She also knows a lot about love. And BALLS is, above all, a love story. Nanci Kincaid is the author of two previous novels, Crossing Blood and Balls, and a collection of short stories, Pretending the Bed Is a Raft. She lives in Hawaii with her husband. They have four grown children. ADVANCE PRAISE "Balls is sad, funny, honest--and one of the best novels ever written about college football. But this sumptuous roman a clef is about more than that: love, marriage, sex, race, corruption, all set in a vivid milieu where Saturday is the holy day." -- Willie Morris, author of The Courting of Marcus Dupree "Nanci Kincaid's exuberant female characters...seduce with bouncy charm and then--thwack--come at you from left field with gritty insights about life and love."--Elle
Notes
Kincaid, N. (1998). Balls. [United States], Algonquin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kincaid, Nanci. 1998. Balls. [United States], Algonquin Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kincaid, Nanci, Balls. [United States], Algonquin Books, 1998.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kincaid, Nanci. Balls. [United States], Algonquin Books, 1998.
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