Description: "With a sort of sneaky, reverse-layup poetry" (Time), Big Man tells the story of Mack Davis, a black All-American basketball star who got caught up in the point-fixing scandals in the 1950s. Fallen from the big time, he must return again to lost school-yards of his Brooklyn neighborhood. A novel that moves with the speed and hard grace of the game itself, Big Man is sure to play to fans of Hoop Dreams and The Last Shot and puts Jay Neugeboren among "the surprisingly tiny company of fiction writers who have captured the essence of the athlete as a human being" (Kansas City Star).

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