The House Of Moses All-stars

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Former basketball-star Aaron Steiner is teetering on the edge of madness and about to be given a one-way ticket to Bellevue. In desperation, he accepts his friend's offer to join a Jewish professional basketball team on a cross-country tour in a renovated hearse. Aaron's fellow teammates - a working communist, a Zionist, a former bank robber, and an African-American who is passing for a Jew - are, like, Aaron, trying to escape their own troubled pasts.

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This is not simply a novel about basketball in the dark ages. Mr. Rosen has much more on his mind here. This is a book about guilt and redemption, about the loss of innocence, about racism and bigotry, about class indifference. Charles Salzberg,The New York Times Book Review


Rosen gives us a sometimes agonizing, often hilarious journey through American history, and a poignant account of what keeps a man running. Andy Solomon,Chicago Tribune


A vivid portrait ... Alexander Harrison,Times Literary Supplement

Author Bio

A native of the Bronx and longtime pal of basketball guru Phil Jackson, CHARLEY ROSENled the league in technical fouls during each of his six years as a coach in the now-defunct Continental Basketball Association. Since then he has become the world's foremost writer of fiction and nonfiction on the subject of basketball, chronicling the drama that takes place both on and off the court. His many novels include The House of Moses All-Stars, a New York Times Notable Book, and Sammy Wong- All-American. His non-fiction works include The Scandals of '51- How the Gamblers Almost Killed College Basketball and More than a Game, with Phil Jackson. Rosen is an analyst for hoopshype.com and a devotee of the Triangle Offense. He lives in Accord, NY.