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Across the River audiobook
- By: Kent Babb
- Narrator: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Sports
- Length: 11 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 10, 2021
- Language: English
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Across the River Audiobook Summary
On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. For years, this football program has brought glory to Algiers, winning three consecutive state championships and sending dozens of young men to college on football scholarships.
Although he is preparing for a fourth title, head coach Brice Brown is focused on something else: keeping his players alive. An epidemic of gun violence plagues New Orleans and its surrounding communities and has claimed many innocent lives, including Brown’s former star quarterback, Tollette “Tonka” George, shot near a local gas station.
In Across the River, award-winning sports journalist Kent Babb follows the Karr football team through its 2019 season as Brown and his team–perhaps the scrappiest and most rebellious group in the program’s history–vie to again succeed on and off the field. What is sure to be a classic work of sports journalism, Across the River is a necessary investigation into the serious realities of young athletes in struggling neighborhoods: gentrification, eviction, mental health issues, the drug trade, and gun violence. It offers a rich and unflinching portrait of a coach, his players, and the West Bank, a community where it’s difficult–but not impossible–to rise above the chaos, discover purpose, and find a way out.
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Across the River Audiobook Narrator
Ryan Vincent Anderson is the narrator of Across the River audiobook that was written by Kent Babb
KENT BABB is a reporter for The Washington Post and author of the acclaimed Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson. His writing examines the intersection of sports and culture, and three of his stories appeared in The Best American Sports Writing. The Associated Press Sports Editors have three times honored his features as the nation’s best, and Not a Game was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He lives in the Washington, DC, area with his wife and daughter.
About the Author(s) of Across the River
Kent Babb is the author of Across the River
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Across the River Full Details
| Narrator | Ryan Vincent Anderson |
| Length | 11 hours 39 minutes |
| Author | Kent Babb |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | August 10, 2021 |
| ISBN | 9780062950628 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Across the River is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Sports
Additional info
The publisher of the Across the River is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062950628.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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