Bleachers is written by John Grisham and as I have mentioned before, Bleachers is a story about a high school football coach that is dying and his former players coming back to their hometown to relive their glory days as football stars and talk about their famous coach's legacy. Personally, I think this is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It incorporates a little of all the elements of the world like sports, relationships, life lessons, and more. One chapter the former all-American quarterback, Neely Crenshaw may be explaining the events of the most memorable football game of his career, and another chapter, Neely would be dealing with his old relationship with his old girlfriend. In addition, the writing is fantastic. John Grisham is very detailed and specific when writing, and it makes the story very clear and easy to understand. There is a good use of vivid adjectives and verbs as well.
Here are some reviews of Bleachers from other sources:
In this review, the author, Stuart Shiffman writes that "there is much more than football in this story" and he says that it is a story about life and growing up and growing older. In addition, Stuart Shiffman says Bleachers "has given us a haunting look at the years in our lives that we often look back upon with a sense of nostalgia that is difficult to characterize." I like that statement because always I witness parents relive their high school days like they were yesterday and they always wish they could be back in that time. I think these feelings can be seen especially in former football players.
In this book review, the author, Harry Ritchie, wrote that Bleachers "starts out rather
promisingly but doesn't really develop." I thought this is interesting because I think it is the
opposite. I believe it starts out a little slow but it speeds up as you get further into the book.
Well, I guess it just depends on the reader and their interest for high school football.
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