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Rick Reilly Slo Mo!: My Untrue Story
Doubleday 1999 038548884X / 9780385488846 Hardcover Very Good
"'() A Spinal Tap for sports: the uproarious ''autobiography'' of Slo Mo Finsternick, 7'8'' shooting guard and NBA sensation, by the author of the bestselling Missing Links--Sports Illustrated star columnist Rick Reilly Seven-foot, eight-inch Maurice ''Slo Mo'' Finsternick knows nothing about the NBA while growing up in a bizarre cave-dwelling cult in Colorado. Shunned by his shorter peers, he spends lonely days at the cult compost heap tossing a found basketball through a wire hoop. He never misses. Through no fault of his own, he's discovered by the NBA and becomes the hottest sports icon in the country. This is his story, told, like all jock autobiographies, in his own words. As this dead-on parody of big-time sports unfolds, Slo Mo gradually learns how a famous athlete is supposed to behave. Kind, truthful, polite, and self-effacing, at first Slo Mo is baffled by the attentions of Jacquanda ''Jinx'' Silver, the groupie with the world's worst condoms, and by the antics of teammat'''' ID: mon0000084704"
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