Playing for Pizza - John Grisham

Background: Having recently read 'Bleachers' by John Grisham, I was keen to try another by this author, as I believe you cannot judge an author on just book. About this author: John Grisham has written 18 best selling novels. He lives in both Virginia and Mississippi with his family. 'Playing for Pizza' was written and published in 2007. Storyline of the book: Rick Dockery is in hospital having suffered concussion from the American Super Bowl ...
...the match as 3rd choice Quarterback makes him a laughing stock to most Americans. He is sacked by his club the Cleveland Browns and ridiculed by the press as 'top of the all time Goat list'. His agent Arnie, despite this finds a club that are interested and will pay him for his services. But this will be a whole new ball game for Rick as the team are the Parma Panthers. He is a well travelled professional but he didn't even know they played American ...

CPTDANIELS 08.02.2008 · Read full review
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It's been a while but I've finally found the mojo to rustle up a review, so here goes. Rick Dockery, third choice quarterback for the Cleveland Browns American football team, wakes up in a hospital bed and he doesn't know how he got there, or more importantly why he's there. It's only when Arnie, his agent and one and only visitor, begins to fill in the blanks that the seriousness of his situation hits home. In the space of eleven minutes Rick ...
...world. To say he had a 'shocker' of a game would be an understatement. Add a severe concussion to the mix, along with the general all round battering he received and Rick begins to think his day can't get any worse. However, it does, as Arnie informs Rick that he's been fired by the Cleveland Browns, and that no other team in North America will touch him with the proverbial bargepole following his recent catastrophic performance. All is not lost ...

scampi1 27.06.2008 (26.06.2008) · Read full review
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...to full length movies. Playing for Pizza is a break from his traditional tough thriller style. The plot is revealed on the flyleaf of the book. Rick Dockery is an outcast from the NFL after a series of disasterous seasons he is finaly forced to leave the NFL and seeks refuge in Italy playing for Parma Panthers. The novel is written in an excellent style. The description of Rick settling in to his new lifestyle in Parma, the new environment, the ...
...will probably want to visit Parma after reading this book. As the Italian NFL season progressess all of the elements of a good novel come in to play, love, hatred, redemption, success and failure. Without giving away too much of the plot Rick finds life in Italy is full of surprises and challenges. The book is very easy to read. There are some technical descriptions of NFL football but you do not have to be a fan to read this. It is for any age ...

damien.gallery 04.01.2008 · Read full review
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This is one of Grisham's better novels, another of those ones you find difficult to put down, not because it's a tense story where you have to know what's going to happen but simply because it's easy to read, it's lighthearted and enjoyable. The scene is set mostly in Parma, Italy where an American football loser of a quarterback hides from the shame of a bad game in the American league but continues to play in an un-heard of Italian league. Many of the Italian players play for free (or Pizza) and love of the game. The scene setting is very good, you will want to go to Parma after reading this - Grisham obviously ran with what worked in 'The Broker'. ...

SaulWright50 13.01.2008
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