John GRISHAM ... Playing for Pizza (2007)

Sports and fiction?

ANOTHER one of John Grisham’s forays outside the legal-thriller genre, Playing for Pizza (Doubleday/Century, September 2007) relates the cultural and linguistic misadventures of a fallen American football star quarterback who moves to Italy to play for the Parma Panthers. His other non-legal-thriller forays include A Painted House (2001), Skipping Christmas (2001), Bleachers (2003) and An Innocent Man (2006), his first nonfiction book. Keep a lookout for his new legal thriller which should be out on January 29, 2008, The Appeal (Doubleday/Century, 2008).

Book courtesy of MPH Distributors