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Sooley / John Grisham.

Grisham, John, (author.).

Summary:

After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called off the bench, the legend begins.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385547680 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 355 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Subject: Sudanese > United States > Fiction.
Basketball players > Fiction.
College athletes > Fiction.
North Carolina > Fiction.
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Sports fiction.

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  • 2 of 3 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series.
 
Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.
 
When he's not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.
 
John lives on a farm in central Virginia.


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