Who is the author of bleachers

I doubt if American football is a sport I'd like to watch live. To me,it is a bunch of guys falling in a heap and breaking each other's bones. I was,therefore,surprised how much I enjoyed this book. This is good storytelling by Grisham. A high school football coach is about to die,and the players he trained,reminisce about him,and the old days. The coach hadn't made it easy for them. For a Grisham book,this is pretty short.

It was almost as if I was sitting in the bleachers,cheering for that high school football team,which had such a tough taskmaster as a coach. As an ex-football player myself, I could really identify with the characters in this book. The audio edition was excellent. Jane Stewart. It was not fun. Guys who played high school football 15 yrs ago reminisce about the past.

Melancholy and sadness. He now has cancer and is expected to die any day. Guys who used to play football for him have returned to town for the coming funeral.

Neely was a star quarterback in high school. His career was cut short due to a knee injury in college. Neely talks with other guys about the past. We listen to the guys reminisce and remember events from the past. It was interesting in a newspaper reporting kind of way. There is no excitement, suspense, or anticipation.

At best it was ok. I felt the author may have been experimenting - trying a different style of writing. Some of it was about brutality and violence in football. A lot of it was sad to see what happens to football players after they no longer play. I was sad for Neely at the losses in his life. His wrecked knee. He lost the only two women he ever loved.

He broke up with one of them for a stupid reason, and he regrets it. He had no desire to study and better himself after his football career was over. It was interesting to hear his southern accent. DATA: Unabridged audiobook story length: 4 hrs and 22 mins. Swearing language: none that I recall. Sexual content: none. Setting: current day Messina, Mississippi. Book copyright: Genre: football fiction. Ending: sad, resigned, life goes on. Natalie Vellacott. Author 9 books followers.

You dream of the glory days, but you know they're gone forever. It proves that he can write outside his usual genre and just about get away with it. Bleachers is a nostalgic tale of dreams lost and memories swirling. The town of Messina is in mourning. Their feared yet beloved football coach Eddie Rake is on his death bed. Also by John Grisham. About John Grisham John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

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We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Today's Top Books Want to know what people are actually reading right now? On the book jacket, there is a small note explaining that Grisham "played at times quarterback for the Chargers of the Southhaven High School, Southaven, Mississippi. He was not all-American. Bleachers is the simple story of a larger-than-life football coach and his former players.

The story is set in Messina, Mississippi, during four days in October. Messina is a small Southern town of 8, souls so obsessed with high school football that their field seats 10, Grisham paints a vivid portrait of the town and wryly agrees with the numbers.

But they piled in from the county, from out in the sticks where there was nothing else to do on Friday night.. The town gets its life from football. So does the school, where display cases line the walls because "football was king and that would never change. Former coach Eddie Rake is dying. A formidable force, he has whipped years worth of the Spartan teams into a high school football legend.