John Ed Bradley
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Sports Illustrated | September 5, 1994 (NFL '94 Preview: In the Line of Fire) (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1958
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Yrken
- novelist
sportswriter
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It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium av John Ed Bradley
Really wonderful memoir of an American football player who played for LSU, the top football college in Louisiana, and absolutely football obsessed part of the world. For all the players it was such an intense experience that very many of them never really got over leaving it behind, and John Ed talks a lot about his struggles trying to come to terms with the experience. The book is a blend of these struggles and wonderful stories of his time as a player. Highly recommended.
An art mystery story with racial components and also a bit of romance. Jack Charbonnet, a New Orleans newspaper humor columnist comes to the realization he has written every column for the last decade for his father, who recently died of lung cancer. Deciding he’s burnt out at age thirty-two, Jack quits. “I’d had it with wit and jocularity.”
Jack meets Rhys Goudeau, an art restorer. Jack’s dad was a photographer and art lover who searched for and never found an elusive painting by the late New Orleans artist Levette Asmore. Rhys is also on the track of works by Asmore, as is the wickedly named avaricious and racist art collector Tommy Smallwood.
Race, racial identity, and misappropriation of culture feature in this 2003 novel, before it became such a prominent issue. As Jack says at one point: “It was clear to me now that the whole business of classifying a human being by the color of his skin, let alone its tone or degree of color, was a lot of crazy horseshit.”
John Ed Bradley tells a good story here and raises important issues, but is still able to fit in bits of humor. Tommy Smallwood’s art conservator is known as Hairy Mary. And this observation from Jack at an art auction: “Buyers who looked as though they couldn’t afford the three-wing special at Popeye’s casually dropped thousands on silver teaspoons.”… (mer)
Jack meets Rhys Goudeau, an art restorer. Jack’s dad was a photographer and art lover who searched for and never found an elusive painting by the late New Orleans artist Levette Asmore. Rhys is also on the track of works by Asmore, as is the wickedly named avaricious and racist art collector Tommy Smallwood.
Race, racial identity, and misappropriation of culture feature in this 2003 novel, before it became such a prominent issue. As Jack says at one point: “It was clear to me now that the whole business of classifying a human being by the color of his skin, let alone its tone or degree of color, was a lot of crazy horseshit.”
John Ed Bradley tells a good story here and raises important issues, but is still able to fit in bits of humor. Tommy Smallwood’s art conservator is known as Hairy Mary. And this observation from Jack at an art auction: “Buyers who looked as though they couldn’t afford the three-wing special at Popeye’s casually dropped thousands on silver teaspoons.”… (mer)
A book about friendship, prejudice, desegregation, adolescent males, and the complexities and tension of racial integration in the 1965 world of high school football.
I appreciate the reading the white character's perspective and voice. It was authentic, especially as the character questioned his own ideas, beliefs, views on racism and racists.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 11
- Även av
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 360
- Popularitet
- #66,630
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 12
- ISBN
- 42
- Språk
- 2