Rough & Tumble: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Bavaro
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 88170
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0312375743
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312375744
ASIN: 0312375743
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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A riveting debut novel of a season in the life of a professional football player—written by one of the NFL's best tight ends of all time. Dominic Fucillo is a tight end for the surging New York Giants. Rebellious, ferociously angry, deeply religious and fighting injuries and a crumbling love life that would bring the average man to his knees, Dom is a veteran player who is having the toughest season of his career at a time when his team can do nothing wrong--or so it seems. Because behind the big wins, a major scandal is brewing. The team's star linebacker has always lived on the edge and enjoyed the nightlife more than he should. But when he's found beaten nearly to death in the stadium parking lot, it's clear he's gotten himself into more than even he bargained for, and it's something that threatens to tear himself and his team's promising season apart. Inspired by his years shedding blood and sweat playing professional football, ROUGH & TUMBLE is Mark Bavaro’s novel about the brutal world of the NFL—and a classic sports story of one man’s determination and grit.
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 Pro Bowl writing December 30, 2008
C. Albano (Beverly, MA)
I am a commuter train reader who reads mostly fiction (Grisham, Connelly, Koontz, DeMille, Flynn). This book was recommended to me, but as a Patriots and Cowboys fan I was reluctant to read something written by a Giant. However, I gave it a shot as it IS about football. Boy, am I glad I read this book. Bavaro really did a great job conveying the finer points of being an NFL player while telling a great story. This author does a great job of bringing the reader into the locker room and showing us the NFL behind closed doors. Additionally, the reader is shown what life is like for an NFL star when he leaves the confines of the stadium and is vulnerable to the fringes of the fooball life. Only somebody who had starred in the NFL could have written this book so well. I also recommended this book to my 73 year old mother and she loved it and read it in two days.
A great, entertaining read December 17, 2008
Satisfied Lone Wolf (Timonium, MD)
This is the ultimate book about the life of an NFL player. Written with gusto and style, Bavarro not only takes you on the playing field and the locker room, but takes you inside the head of a end of the line football player. Not since North Dallas Forty has there been such a fine novel.
Dominick is a troubled football player- alcoholic, pill popper, temper issues and bad relationships with women. He is a wounded guy, with many faults, but a guy with a heart and man who is tortured by the game he plays and the football life that could soon be over for him due to age, bad knees and bad decisions. Spending time with Dom and his story is a guilty pleasure, that all should take. I loved this one.
Realistic look into the NFL's dark side. November 23, 2008
R. Blasi (Barnegat,NJ USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bavaro writes as well as he played the game. Novel is well written and hard to put down once you started to read it. Very realistic, even better than "North Dallas Forty", but then I'm a Giant fan.
 thrilling but dark look at the NFL September 18, 2008
Harriet Klausner
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
New York Giants tight end Dominic Fucillo is having a tough season while his mates are on a roll that he hopes will leave him with a Superbowl ring. The Commissioner fines Dominic $50,000 for attacking a referee during the Eagles loss and his girlfriend will not talk to him. These are minor inconveniences when compared to the team physician telling him his once blown out knee has a hole in it requiring post season surgery. Dominic understands the knife will occur after the season ends just like he knows this time his career will be over with the needed operation.
However, Dominic's final run to glory is hampered by the team's superstar drug using linebacker James Moze. He was recently beaten to a pulp by either gamblers who he hangs with or drug peddlers. As the team begins a victorious march towards the playoffs, every form of human lice converges with demands on the Giants.
Although not new as football exposure stories have been around for years, former great tight end Mark Bavaro provides a thrilling but dark look at the NFL. The eccentric cast makes the story line engaging especially for football fans as the audience obtains a deep look at what happens behind the scene to a professional football team especially when they make a strong run for the championship.
Harriet Klausner
Bravo, Mr. Bavaro! September 11, 2008
Amelah (PA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
More than just a football story, it's a journey of a man, loving and breathing the only life he knows, who is trying to make sense of his world (and how he relates to it) as it shifts and turns and crumbles.
This novel enlightens even the non-football persona (like myself), who is curious to understand the psychology of anything not inately understood, while couched in a fictional setting. It's a real eye-opener to the sacrifices and struggles endured. Although fictitious (yes, it reads like a real life story, hence the argument between what's referred to as "artistic license" and what some true sports enthusiasts may find unrealistic), it makes for very compelling reading. I couldn't put the book down.
Through well-written story-telling (in layman's terms for folks like me! Thank you!), vivid characters, and character development, we come to appreciate the emotional dynamics off the field, and understand the toll of physical brutality on it, in the name of a singular, hard-driven goal (I will never take bed sheets for granted again! -- you'll see what I mean, if you read it!).
A wonderful story, from beginning to end. Bravo, Mr. Bavaro! I'm looking forward to your next novel!
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