Description
In this uproarious satire of professional football, star halfback Billy Clyde Puckett travels to Los Angeles with the New York Giants for a high-stakes showdown against the despised Jets—and a commission to chronicle everything surrounding the game. As Billy Clyde navigates locker-room rivalries, celebrity excess, cigarettes, whiskey, and romantic complications, his close friendship with teammate Marvin “Shake” Tiller is tested by Shake’s newfound devotion to a bizarre self-awareness movement and his relationship with their roommate, Barbara Jane Bookman. With its sharp sportswriting, outrageous characters, and irreverent portrait of a vanished athletic culture, the novel delivers a fast, funny look at masculinity, friendship, ambition, and the absurd theater of professional sports.
Available Editions
paperback
Star Books
Published Jan 1, 1978
216 pages
ISBN: 9780352302106
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Details
First Published
1972
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Semi-tough by Dan Jenkins.