A Roast for Coach Dan Spear: Small Town Football Dreams from Florida Fifties [Paperback]

Robert Lee Bowie (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Zakamora Ogee Pubns (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965825876
• ISBN-13: 978-0965825870
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,925,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sorry, Professor, but I don't like your book!, March 6, 2003

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This review is from: A Roast for Coach Dan Spear: Small Town Football Dreams from Florida Fifties (Paperback)

If you are looking for a straight-forward walk down memory lane, forget this book. It rambles disjointedly, like someone just writing down random thoughts as they occur to him. I wanted to read this book because I was a former student of the author, and the person that came through in this book is certainly not the person, the professor, that I remember. What may have been an appealing topic gets lost in the hodgepodge of literary devices. Who (unless you are "in" on the jokes) needs the interminable list of names? I can't recommend this book, and I'm very disappointed that it is not the book I thought it would be.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars small town, 50's & high school football, February 11, 2004

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This review is from: A Roast for Coach Dan Spear: Small Town Football Dreams from Florida Fifties (Paperback)

excellent book! written in a unique perspective that provides an unfiltered description of growing up in the small town south in the 1950's. The back drop is a "david & goliath" football game as little Mount Dora High meets state powerhouse, unbeaten, Bishop Moore-a catholic school from the big city of Orlando.

sad, touching, comical..

enjoyable read!