Binding: Hardcover
Description: About Sooley New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first basketball novel. Samuel Sooley Sooleymon is a raw young talent with big hoop dreams and even bigger challenges off the court. In the summer of his seventeenth year Sam uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket ball tournament. He has never been away from home nor has he ever been on an airplane. The opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. Samuel is an amazing athlete with speed quick ness and an astonishing vertical leap. The rest of his game though needs work and the American coaches are less than impressed. During the tournament Samuel receives dev astating news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan and rebel troops have ran sacked his village. His father is dead his sister is missing and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp. Samuel desperately wants to go home but it's just not possible. Partly out of sympathy the coach of North Carolina Central offers him a scholar ship. Samuel moves to Durham enrolls in classes joins the team and prepares to sit out his freshman season. There is plenty of more mature talent and he isn t immediately needed. But Samuel has something no other player has: a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America. He works tirelessly on his game shooting baskets every morning at dawn by himself in the gym and soon he's dominating everyone in practice. With the Central team los ing and suffering injury after injury Sooley as he is nicknamed is called off the bench. And the legend begins. But how far can Sooley take his team? And will success allow him to save his family? Gripping and moving Sooley showcases John Grisham s
Title: Sooley
Author(s): Grisham John
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780385547680
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/27/2021