About This Book:
Year Published:
1992
Publisher:
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Genre:
Action / Adventure
Author:
Deborah Chiel
Screenplay Writer:
Dick Wolf & Darryl Poniesan
Type:
Full Movie Novelization
Number of Pages:
218
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Summary:
It was the fad of 1955, a time when America had nothing to fear, especially the privileged young men of St. Matthew's. But for the first time in the history of the elite New England boarding school, a student has come on scholarship to play football--and he is a Jew. A natural, unstoppable quarterback, a gifted student and a kind friend, David Greene left his tarnished coal town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to make good on the dream of his father and his grandfather. David's riding high on the academic and social white water, on his way to Harvard--until it all comes crashing down. Behind the elegant iron gates of St. Matthew's, David confronts a tradition of fear and hatred as strong as the school's stone buildings a bigotry that stands between him and them, between his family and his own future.
