by John Grisham · Doubleday · tapa dura · ISBN 9780385525008
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«Playing for Pizza» is a novel by John Grisham, published by Doubleday in hardcover (262 pages, in English).
Rick Dockery, backup quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, delivers a disastrous performance in a key game and becomes the national laughingstock. Fired and without a team in the NFL, he ends up signing with the Parma Panthers, an Italian American football club. In Parma he discovers wine, small cars, and a culture he doesn't understand.
The novel was originally published by Doubleday on September 24, 2007, and is set in Parma, Italy.
Suitable for John Grisham fans, contemporary fiction readers, and book clubs, for its humorous tone and Italian setting.
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
