Quick, Matthew

Boy 21 by Matthew Quick - Paperback - New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown, 2013 - 250 p. ; 21 cm.


Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.

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Emotional problems of teenagers -- Fiction
Irish Americans -- Fiction
Gangsters -- Fiction


Sports

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